Senior Backend Engineer

Nightfall AI • San Francisco, CA

157d • $180,000 - $220,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Nightfall, you'll enable us to deliver our platform reliably, securely, and at massive scale. You'll help architect low latency, real-time microservices that process & detect sensitive data at scale. This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco office.

Requirements

• Minimum 4+ years of hands-on technical development experience
• Experience programming in Go, C++, Java or related language
• Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to substantial data volumes or millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring and reliability.
• Experience designing and building systems in a microservices-based architecture
• Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them
• A foundational understanding of multi-threaded programming, concurrency primitives, and data structures
• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field

Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineers, product managers and designers to identify customer needs and build innovative solutions to solve them
• Design and implement new features and lead the shipping of these features into production
• Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services
• Implement best practices in a fast-paced engineering environment
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation to ensure that product quality and performance SLAs are consistently met.

Benefits

• Base salary range of 180-220k

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees