Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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.

- 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 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

- 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

We offer competitive compensation aligned to tier one markets. Our estimated salary for this role at Bubble ranges from $183,000 to $237,000. Actual pay is determined by multiple factors such as skills, qualifications, experience and market demand.

Location: This is a remote-friendly role open to candidates authorized to work in the U.S. Our team is based in NYC and works Eastern Time.