Platform Engineer

Backend Software Engineer

Location: Anywhere in USA

Requirements:

• 6+ years of backend software engineering experience, with a strong record of shipping production services at scale.
• Proven, hands-on proficiency in Go and/or Rust you write these languages regularly and can demonstrate production systems you have built with them.
• Solid experience building and operating distributed data systems: event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, or equivalent), time-series databases, and high-throughput ingestion pipelines.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems: consistency models, failure modes, backpressure, idempotency, and exactly-once vs. at-least-once processing trade-offs.
• Experience with cloud-native deployment: containerization (Docker), Kubernetes orchestration, and operating services across at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure).
• Familiarity with observability tooling structured logging, metrics (PrometheGrafana or equivalent), and distributed tracing (Open Telemetry or equivalent).
• Comfortable writing SQL and working with both relational and time-series data models; experience with schema design and query optimization.
• Strong engineering practices: test-driven or test-informed development, code review, CI/CD, and operational ownership including on-call.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with network telemetry protocols (gNMI, NETCONF, SNMP) or prior work at a network equipment vendor or network management platform company (e.g., Juniper, Cisco, Nokia).
• Hands-on experience with graph databases or graph data models for network topology (e.g., Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, or custom adjacency representations).
• Familiarity with YANG data modelling or prior experience working with device configuration schemas in network management contexts.
• Experience building multi-tenant SaaS backend services with strong data isolation and per-tenant resource management.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure, observability, or networking projects; or published technical writing on distributed systems topics.
• Experience working in or adjacent to regulated, security-conscious environments (FedRAMP, NIST, or equivalent).