Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Deploy • Seattle, WA

22h

About The Position

Deploy is an AI intelligence infrastructure platform providing access to open source and proprietary AI models. The Staff Software Engineer will help grow the engineering team and build products and features for production. The role is suited to developers who can work autonomously, explore new technologies, and address challenges of scale. The ideal candidate has built core services and web-based APIs from the ground up, cares about both product and technology, and writes clean, maintainable code.

The position contributes to backend systems and products, including REST APIs, microservices, data ingestion and processing, and distributed task and job processing. The engineer will help improve engineering standards and security, debug production issues, and participate in on-call rotations as needed. The role also includes following information-protection policies and reporting suspected security or policy violations.

The current expected base salary range is $200,000–$300,000. Compensation may vary based on qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, and location. Stock options may be offered in addition to base pay. Employees may participate in company-sponsored health, vision, dental, and gym membership benefits, and receive paid vacation under the company’s vacation policy. A hired applicant may receive an equity grant in the form of an option to purchase stock in the future for a specified price.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• 8 or more years of experience building web applications.
• Experience successfully implementing highly available distributed systems or microservices.
• Experience delivering scalable backend APIs.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a bias toward action.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree or PhD in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field.
• Hands-on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact.
• Interest in and ability to learn other coding languages.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, or improve features in backend systems, including REST APIs, microservices, data ingestion and processing systems, and distributed task/job processing systems.
• Write and maintain scalable, performant, secure code that can be shared across platforms.
• Contribute to the product and core backend systems by suggesting and executing improvements.
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, processes, and security.
• Practice test-driven development.
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Participate in on-call rotations as needed to ensure prompt and effective resolution of critical technical issues.
• Use OWASP Top 10 techniques to secure code from vulnerabilities.
• Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance handling as it relates to the role.
• Adhere to policies, guidelines, and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets.
• Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations or breaches to an appropriate authority.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Gym membership
• Paid vacation
• Stock options may be offered; a hired applicant may receive an equity grant in the form of a stock option.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior