Senior Backend Software Engineer – Distributed Systems / Engineering Enable

Role: Senior Backend Software Engineer — Distributed Systems / Engineering EnablementWe are hiring a senior backend engineer to focus on distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and observability—not backend product features. This is a high-impact role supporting a mission-critical, AI-driven healthcare platform that processes millions of conversations every month.Location & Compensation:San Francisco or New York City (hybrid, minimum 3 days onsite)Base salary: $211K–$248K, plus generous equity and benefitsLocation requirement is non-negotiableWhat you’ll do:Improve application-level reliability and system scalabilitySignificantly reduce latency using observability and profiling toolsScale compute-heavy services running on KubernetesSolve platform and infrastructure challenges at large scaleEnable other engineers by improving system performance and internal toolingRequirements (non-negotiable):5–10 years of software engineering experience2 years focused on backend performance, scalability, or infrastructureStrong experience with distributed systemsProven success improving reliability and reducing latencyProduction experience scaling services on KubernetesExperience with a major cloud provider (GCP preferred)Strong Python and/or TypeScript skillsHands-on monitoring/observability experience (Datadog, Grafana)Background in big tech or hypergrowth startup environmentsThis role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving deep infrastructure problems and enabling high-performing engineering teams at scale.

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