Software Engineer - Backend Platform
About The Position
DataHub is an AI & Data Context Platform adopted by over 3,000 enterprises, including Apple, CVS Health, Netflix, and Visa. Innovated jointly with a thriving open-source community of 13,000+ members, DataHub's metadata graph provides in-depth context of AI and data assets with best-in-class scalability and extensibility. The company's enterprise SaaS offering, DataHub Cloud, delivers a fully managed solution with AI-powered discovery, observability, and governance capabilities. Organizations rely on DataHub solutions to accelerate time-to-value from their data investments, ensure AI system reliability, and implement unified governance, enabling AI & data to work together and bring order to data chaos. We’re looking for a motivated Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience to join our Backend Platform team. You’ll help build the scalable services and core capabilities behind DataHub Cloud and enterprise deployments. In this role, you’ll work on backend systems that make it easier for organizations to manage, operate, and get more value from their data ecosystem. You’ll partner with experienced engineers to solve meaningful challenges across distributed systems, platform reliability, metadata operations, and customer-facing enterprise experiences.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping backend, platform, or distributed systems.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Go, or a similar backend-focused language.
- Experience designing and building APIs, backend services, distributed workflows, or data-intensive applications.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Working knowledge of containers and cloud-native technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- A solid understanding of core computer-science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, API design, and system performance.
- Familiarity with monitoring, observability, or production-system operations.
- Knowledge of backend fundamentals such as networking, security, databases, and service reliability.
- Strong problem-solving skills, curiosity, and an ownership-oriented approach to engineering.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment and take projects from idea through production.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building or operating multi-tenant SaaS products.
- Experience with customer-facing administration, management, or deployment tools.
- Familiarity with data infrastructure, metadata management, data catalogs, analytics platforms, or data governance.
- Exposure to microservices, service meshes, or high-scale distributed architectures.
- Experience working with enterprise customers, customer success teams, or customer-facing technical organizations.
- Interest in AI infrastructure, data governance, or the modern data stack.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services that power DataHub Cloud and enterprise platform capabilities.
- Develop reliable APIs, workflows, and distributed services that support metadata operations, system health, deployment management, and customer-facing platform experiences.
- Partner with senior engineers to solve complex technical challenges involving scalability, performance, availability, and distributed systems.
- Build features that help customers configure, manage, and operate DataHub across cloud and enterprise environments.
- Improve platform visibility by developing capabilities related to system health, usage, performance, and operational insights.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, customer success, and engineering teams to deliver thoughtful, reliable product experiences.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code; participate in code reviews; and contribute to technical design discussions.
- Contribute to a collaborative engineering culture by sharing knowledge and growing through mentorship from experienced backend and platform engineers.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Equity for everyone
- Remote Work
- Location flexibility
- Home office, coworking space, or something in between? We support your ideal setup. You’ll receive a monthly coworking stipend to use whenever you need a change of pace or in-person collaboration time.
- Comprehensive health coverage
- We cover 99% of medical, dental, and vision premiums employees, and 65% for dependents.
- Flexible savings accounts
- We offer FSAs to help cover planned or unexpected healthcare costs. You can also opt into a Dependent Care FSA to support family needs.
- Support for every path to parenthood
- Through Carrot Fertility, we provide inclusive fertility benefits and family-forming support. All U.S. employees have access, regardless of age, gender identity, or family structure.
- Time off that works for you
- We trust you to take the time you need. Our unlimited PTO and sick leave policy is designed for flexibility, rest, and real life.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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