Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs – SRE Focus

🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

🔒 Cybersecurity

🔌 API

☁️ SaaS

💰 $32M Series B on 2021-11

Cybersecurity • API • SaaS

Fingerprint is a technology company focused on bot detection and identification solutions. The platform helps businesses ensure a secure online environment by accurately identifying users and distinguishing between real users and automated bots. They provide developer guides and workspace settings for easy integration into various applications, enhancing security and user experience.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and optimize backend systems for real-time data processing and web services • Define and own SLIs and SLOs for Core API services and use error budgets to balance shipping velocity and stability • Build and maintain observability through metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing, and alerts • Participate in a shared on-call rotation and respond to incidents • Lead blameless postmortems and complete incident action items • Automate recurring manual work to reduce operational toil • Conduct capacity planning, load testing, and performance tuning • Investigate problematic features, identify root causes, run experiments, and implement engineering improvements • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate backend components • Share engineering best practices and foster a reliability-minded culture • Mentor other developers

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in backend development, including meaningful time operating what you built in production • Formal SRE practice experience, including error budget policies, capacity models, production readiness reviews, and chaos or fault-injection testing • Strong demonstrated experience in GoLang and/or Node.js, with willingness to learn • Strong experience designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend systems • Experience building and optimizing APIs, real-time data processing systems, and microservices architectures • Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes • Experience with Terraform or AWS CloudFormation • Working fluency with observability tooling such as Datadog or comparable monitoring, logging, and tracing platforms • Experience participating in an on-call rotation • Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with DynamoDB, Redis, or Elasticsearch • Proficiency with Git, IDEs, shell scripting, and CI/CD • Proficient in English • Ability to work independently while effectively collaborating as a team member • Strong desire to mentor and grow junior team members • Authorized to work from home location; no visa sponsorship available

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work • Ability to join the workforce from almost any country, subject to country restrictions • Inclusive work environment • No visa sponsorship; authorization to work from home location required