Full Stack Engineer, Product Platform
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๐ Remote
โฐ Full Time
Job Description:
- Own Postgres, including schema design, migrations, indexing, query performance, connection management, and operational health under load
- Design data models that structurally enforce tenant isolation and data classification
- Run live-system migrations without downtime or data loss
- Implement and verify retention, deletion, and minimization across derived data, replicas, caches, and backups
- Build access controls and audit logging for sensitive data
- Produce compliance evidence directly from systems
- Partner with security and GRC on technical controls
- Design and extend multi-region routing, storage, replication, and failover
- Enforce data residency in the platform
- Design, version, deprecate, and maintain backwards-compatible public APIs
- Build API authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and idempotency
- Operate and debug services, data, and infrastructure
- Build internal tooling, admin surfaces, and operational dashboards
- Improve reliability, observability, testing, and deployment; review code and raise the technical bar
Requirements:
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future need for visa sponsorship
- 5+ years building and operating production backend systems
- Deep PostgreSQL experience โ schema design, query optimization, and migrations on live systems with real data
- Strong backend skills in Go, Node.js, Python, Java, or similar, plus enough frontend ability to build internal tooling in React or a comparable framework
- Experience designing and maintaining APIs used by real customers, including versioning and compatibility discipline
- Hands-on cloud experience, AWS preferred, including storage, IAM, and encryption primitives
- Experience handling sensitive or regulated data where access control, retention, and deletion were hard requirements
- Judgment about correctness: idempotency, safe retries, failure handling, and failure modes under load
- Clear communication and good judgment in a remote, cross-functional team
Benefits:
- Remote-first, US-based team
- Quarterly team offsites
- Flexible schedules
- Meaningful equity ownership
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- New computer hardware and equipment