Senior Backend Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Nightfall, you'll enable us to deliver our platform reliably, securely, and at massive scale. You'll help architect low latency, real-time microservices that process & detect sensitive data at scale.
This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco office.

Salary range: $180,000 - $220,000

Responsibilities

• Building highly-available and secure authentication and API services
• Maintaining and evolving mission-critical internal databases and services
• Optimizing and operating high volume auto-scaling streaming data services
• Instrumenting streaming data services for visibility into utilization per customer
• Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services
• Working with product and other stakeholders to define features

Qualifications

• Expertise in one or more systems/high-level programming language (e.g. Python, Go, Java, C++) and the eagerness to learn more.
• Experience running scalable (thousands of RPS) and reliable (three 9's) systems.
• Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to substantial data volumes or millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring and reliability.
• Experience in integrating with third party APIs
• Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. MySQL, Cassandra)
• Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them
• Data Processing - experience with building and maintaining large scale and/or real-time complex data processing pipelines using Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, Storm, or Zookeeper
• 4+ years of experience

Tools We Use

• Go
• Node.js
• React
• Python
• Cassandra
• Redis
• Terraform
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• AWS
• Kafka
• Envoy
• CircleCI