Staff Backend Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• System Ownership: Take full accountability for the most difficult backend challenges, addressing performance bottlenecks, scaling limits, and maintaining system correctness under extreme load
• Architectural Leadership: Set the technical direction for core backend systems, making principled architectural decisions that balance rapid delivery with long-term maintainability
• Distributed Systems Design: Design, build, and operate high-stakes distributed services relied upon by a massive global audience daily
• Problem Resolution: Proactively identify systemic issues and drive them to resolution, navigating ambiguity and cross-functional complexities
• Engineering Excellence: Raise the bar for the backend engineering organization through rigorous design and code reviews, mentoring peers, and modeling elite engineering judgment

Requirements

• Scale & Experience: Proven track record of building and operating distributed systems at significant scale multiple times
• Technical Stack: Deep proficiency in Rust, Go, or TypeScript
• Data Expertise: Extensive knowledge of databases and data modeling, including a sophisticated understanding of tradeoffs regarding consistency, performance, and reliability
• Agency & Ownership: A high-agency, ownership-driven mindset with the ability to take ambiguous problems to concrete outcomes without needing constant direction
• Problem Solving: A reputation for solving complex technical hurdles that have stalled previous efforts
• Domain Knowledge: Previous experience in the crypto or blockchain space is considered a significant plus, though not a strict requirement