Squint Inc-posted 3 days ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Onsite • San Francisco, CA
101-250 employees

Squint is hiring a Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure. You’ll architect and scale the core backend systems that power our platform, improving reliability, performance, and developer velocity as we grow. This is a high-ownership role where you’ll shape foundational infrastructure, influence technical direction, and help build a culture of craftsmanship and impact. Must be comfortable working out of our Downtown SF office Monday through Friday.

  • Scale and harden Squint’s backend infrastructure: compute, networking, data stores, and core services.
  • Build and evolve our observability stack (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting) to improve uptime and debuggability.
  • Improve CI/CD pipelines and release processes to support fast iteration with high confidence.
  • Drive reliability engineering practices: incident response, postmortems, SLOs, and prevention-focused tooling.
  • Mentor and uplevel the team on infrastructure best practices, performance tuning, and operational excellence.
  • Partner with Engineering leadership on system design and technical strategy as we grow.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure infrastructure supports product needs and compliance requirements.
  • Flexibly jump in wherever needed–we’re a startup!
  • 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with a strong focus on infrastructure, platform, or DevOps.
  • Experience designing, scaling, and operating production backend systems on a major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
  • Hands-on experience with core infrastructure tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern CI/CD.
  • Strong observability instincts and familiarity with monitoring/logging stacks (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Proficiency in backend languages such as Python, Node.js, or Go.
  • Comfort across data systems, including relational (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and non-relational (MongoDB/Firestore) databases.
  • High energy, clear communication, curiosity, and customer empathy, paired with a collaborative, high-ownership mindset.
  • Competitive Salary and Equity
  • Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental care
  • Flexible PTO Policy
  • Lunch and Dinner Service
  • Wellness Benefit
  • Maven Family Planning Benefits
  • Partnership with Care.com
  • Mental Health Services
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit for Parking & Public Transit
  • Company-wide Retreats
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