We are seeking an exceptional backend engineer to join our team, which enables the core technologies that power a leading SaaS platform. This role is ideal for individuals passionate about building and scaling systems such as databases, search engines, and ingestion pipelines.
Our mission is to accelerate growth and stability through educated and operationally excellent core technology usage. We aim to help product engineers build simpler, more performant products – faster. This can be achieved through various means, such as making low-level database improvements that enhance everyone's experience, building best-in-class tooling, or partnering with teams that utilise any of our core technologies.
We're building a robust platform where your expertise will be applied to areas such as building a beautiful Messenger, an efficient teammate experience, a secure-by-default system, all while scaling the platform to billions of users and shipping new versions every day.
Main Responsibilities
* Collaborate with domain experts to shape technical direction and infrastructure as we grow.
* Deeply own aspects of our infrastructure at scale – including writing application code, automating systems, improving observability, and low-level tuning of datastores used in production.
* Value agility and simplicity, just as you prioritise scalability and uptime. Our continuous deployment approach ensures focus on gradual improvements.
* Contribute to all phases of software development, including ideation, prototyping, design, and implementation. This role has a mix of both hands-on development as well as strategic work and enablement.
* Play an active role in the hiring, mentoring, and career development of other engineers.
* Raise the bar for technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellence across the board.