Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About the role

You’ll tackle challenges faced by the largest cloud providers with a small, elite team. This position offers an opportunity to be at the forefront of building a platform that is reshaping the traditional engineering stack for the entire world. Additionally, you'll help foster an inclusive, effective, and collaborative engineering culture. This role includes after-hours/on-call availability.

Responsibilities

• Implement the Bubble infrastructure that can scale to infinitely many apps of any size and complexity
• Improve performance and reliability across all backend services to scale our efficiency, capacity management, and data tier
• Design and implement observability across core parts of the system, define and implement Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and work on an observability platform that exposes performance characteristics to end users
• Support billions of requests across a platform that supports arbitrary end user applications by designing, building, and iterating on core backbone services
• Build the workflow engine and scale the data tier to ensure reliability and scalability, supporting high-volume ingest, export, and workflows for diverse direct-to-consumer applications
• Build our next-generation cloud infrastructure, enhancing reliability, scalability, and availability, along with the foundational services and tools required to support it
• Participate in our triage and on-call process (along with the rest of the engineering team) to quickly diagnose and resolve issues, and implement the changes that will stop their recurrence

Requirements

Current senior engineer, or highly experienced engineer with 5+ years of experience in software development

• Understanding and hands-on experience with scalable distributed systems, including proficiency in languages and tools such as Node.js, Rust, PostgreSQL, Kafka and Terraform (AWS experience is a plus)
• Strong problem-solving skills with a track record of implementing and supporting solutions that scale to complex and high-traffic applications
• Excellent communication skills to effectively partner with teammates and managers, and the ability to commit to and execute priorities
• Commitment to improving performance and reliability across backend services, including participation in on-call processes to quickly diagnose and resolve issues

Qualifications

Current senior engineer, or highly experienced engineer with 5+ years of experience in software development

• Understanding and hands-on experience with scalable distributed systems, including proficiency in languages and tools such as Node.js, Rust, PostgreSQL, Kafka and Terraform (AWS experience is a plus)
• Strong problem-solving skills with a track record of implementing and supporting solutions that scale to complex and high-traffic applications
• Excellent communication skills to effectively partner with teammates and managers, and the ability to commit to and execute priorities
• Commitment to improving performance and reliability across backend services, including participation in on-call processes to quickly diagnose and resolve issues

Skills

Current senior engineer, or highly experienced engineer with 5+ years of experience in software development

• Understanding and hands-on experience with scalable distributed systems, including proficiency in languages and tools such as Node.js, Rust, PostgreSQL, Kafka and Terraform (AWS experience is a plus)
• Strong problem-solving skills with a track record of implementing and supporting solutions that scale to complex and high-traffic applications
• Excellent communication skills to effectively partner with teammates and managers, and the ability to commit to and execute priorities
• Commitment to improving performance and reliability across backend services, including participation in on-call processes to quickly diagnose and resolve issues

Benefits

In addition to cash and equity compensation, Bubble offers a robust benefits package equating to roughly twenty thousand in additional annual compensation:

• Comprehensive health coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Wellness and work enablement stipends
• Generous PTO
• A Sabbatical program

Pay

$183,000 to $237,000

Schedule

Remote-friendly role open to candidates authorized to work in the U.S. Our team is based in NYC and works Eastern Time. We're currently set up to hire across most U.S. states. States we're not currently set up to employ in: AK, AL, AR, DE, HI, ID, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MT, NE, NH, NM, ND, OK, RI, SC, SD, VT, WV, WY. If you're in one of these states but open to relocating to NYC, we'd still love to hear from you.

Contact Us

If this sounds like you, apply! If you don’t meet all of the qualifications but think you could be a match, we’d still love the chance to review your application. At Bubble, we encourage people from all ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Bubble does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Perhaps this job doesn't fit your background? Join our talent community!