Software Engineer, Backend, Level 4

- Design, implement, and operate our most critical and scalable services - ranging from user identity services, friend graph, and our core persistence layer

- Work across teams to understand product requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and deliver the solutions needed to build innovative products

- You evaluate, appropriately test, and debug your work, striving for high quality

- Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management

- Utilize AI tools and high velocity engineering workflows to design and ship scalable services while upholding rigorous standards for code correctness, security, and production ready quality code

- Proven track record of operating highly-available systems at significant scale

- You can independently execute on medium sized features, taking a few weeks and multiple PRs to complete

- You understand the operational aspects of your system and may participate in incident or hotfix investigation and resolution

- Proficiency in, or a strong aptitude for, leveraging AI tools to streamline development, paired with the critical judgment to audit generated output for architectural integrity, performance bottlenecks, and security risks.

- Adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems and tools to remain at the forefront of engineering trends and modern development practices

- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or equivalent years of practical work experience

- 2+ years of post-Bachelor's software development experience; or Master's degree in a technical field + 1+ year of post-grad software development experience; or PhD in a relevant technical field

- Experience with NoSQL solutions, Memcache/Redis, Kubernetes, or Google/AWS services

Zone A (CA, WA, NYC) : The base salary range for this position is $157,000-$235,000 annually.

Zone B : The base salary range for this position is $149,000-$223,000 annually.

Zone C : The base salary range for this position is $133,000-$200,000 annually.