Senior Staff Backend Engineer

MLabs • New York, NY

5h • Onsite

About The Position

In this role, you will act as a technical anchor, overseeing the integrity and evolution of our core backend systems. You will balance high-level architectural governance with deep-tier execution, driving technical excellence from the front. Your primary focus will be the proactive mitigation of scaling risks and the design of durable, fault-tolerant systems capable of sustaining high-throughput workloads.
We are looking for a high-agency engineer who shapes direction by building. This role requires a rare blend of deep technical intuition and the ability to thrive in a high-intensity environment.

Requirements

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience, having navigated multiple cycles of building and operating distributed systems in production.
• Expertise in Rust, Go, or TypeScript, paired with a strong intuition for systems-level engineering.
• Mastery of distributed systems (consensus, failure modes, replication, consistency models) and complex data modeling.
• Proven ability to own ambiguous, cross-cutting problems that span multiple teams and services.
• Recognized as a technical authority by peers; you lead through execution and technical excellence rather than just management.
• You thrive in an in-person, high-intensity environment with unconventional hours and high expectations.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience within the crypto/blockchain ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Own & Execute: Directly write and ship production code across core services, owning the design and implementation of high-scale distributed systems.
• Architect for Scale: Make principled decisions that balance rapid iteration with long-term scalability and maintainability.
• Drive Initiatives: Lead multi-service projects spanning storage, compute, APIs, and blockchain infrastructure.
• Set the Standard: Establish patterns for observability, reliability, and performance tuning while raising the engineering bar through design reviews and RFCs.
• Technical Leadership: Act as a technical anchor during incidents and mentor senior peers through technical depth and clarity of thought.
• Optimize Velocity: Improve internal developer experience by evolving tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and service abstractions.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with equity and performance bonuses.
• Unmatched Autonomy: The freedom to own your work and make foundational decisions without bureaucratic friction.
• Extreme Scale: Gain exposure to systems operating at the absolute edge of crypto-native throughput and volume.
• Rapid Impact: Ship fast and see your work used by a massive global audience in real-time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed