Backend Engineer (Infra)

About the role

Engine multiplier: Your customers are our product engineers. The goal is to unlock and empower them to ship features faster and more reliably for our customers. The best infra work here is measured in how much leverage you give the rest of the team.

Pragmatic optimizer: Over-optimizing is a real thing. As a startup, our goal is to grow and build an amazing product that delivers value, not to needlessly upgrade our tech stack for the sake of it. Your job is to strike the line between the cost of infrastructure changes and the potential benefits. Everything's a tradeoff and we want to take the worthwhile ones.

Intellectually curious: Conversion engineers are the kind of people who get excited about a weird edge case and end up sending five Slack messages about it before lunch. This role is in-person 5 days/week in San Francisco. You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have 3+ years of experience building cloud infrastructure, dev tooling, and platform systems at fast-growing companiesHave shipped and operated systems that other engineers depend on, including CI/CD, observability, deploy tooling, or internal platformsHave a startup mindset and want early ownership in a fast-paced environmentHave experience with our tech stack:Go for backend servicesKafka for large-scale data streamingTemporal for durable job executionPostgreSQL and ClickHouse as our databasesGCP for cloud hosting

Requirements

You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have 3+ years of experience building cloud infrastructure, dev tooling, and platform systems at fast-growing companies

You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have shipped and operated systems that other engineers depend on, including CI/CD, observability, deploy tooling, or internal platforms

You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have a startup mindset and want early ownership in a fast-paced environment

You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have experience with our tech stack:Go for backend servicesKafka for large-scale data streamingTemporal for durable job executionPostgreSQL and ClickHouse as our databasesGCP for cloud hosting

Qualifications

You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have 3+ years of experience building cloud infrastructure, dev tooling, and platform systems at fast-growing companies

You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have shipped and operated systems that other engineers depend on, including CI/CD, observability, deploy tooling, or internal platforms

You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have a startup mindset and want early ownership in a fast-paced environment

You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have experience with our tech stack:Go for backend servicesKafka for large-scale data streamingTemporal for durable job executionPostgreSQL and ClickHouse as our databasesGCP for cloud hosting

Skills

You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have 3+ years of experience building cloud infrastructure, dev tooling, and platform systems at fast-growing companies

You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have shipped and operated systems that other engineers depend on, including CI/CD, observability, deploy tooling, or internal platforms

You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have a startup mindset and want early ownership in a fast-paced environment

You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have experience with our tech stack:Go for backend servicesKafka for large-scale data streamingTemporal for durable job executionPostgreSQL and ClickHouse as our databasesGCP for cloud hosting

Benefits

Our engineers have built a live-streaming security system for their parents' new house, a database from scratch, a better Splitwise app, and hosted our Minecraft server, all while at Conversion

Pay

Compensation Range: $175K - $225K