Staff Backend Engineer, Core DevOpsActive$259K

The opportunity

The Core DevOps team owns core repository capabilities, from Git command-line operations to web-based code exploration. We build features and platforms, improve existing capabilities, and improve maintainability, accessibility, performance, and workflows for teams using…

What you'll do

  • Lead the technical design and delivery of backend initiatives that span: teams, and identify and remove systemic bottlenecks across product and infrastructure groups.

  • Drive modular backend, service, data, and platform architecture, including: modernization of the monolith and legacy backends while preventing fragmentation and service sprawl.

  • Define and improve standards for application programming interfaces,: contracts, compatibility, schema evolution, testing, security, performance, observability, operability, and maintainability.

  • Establish patterns for dependency management, data ownership, eventing,: failure isolation, service maturity, and operational documentation.

  • Establish Go service patterns and Kubernetes operating practices where they: matter to the production estate, and guide Rust adoption where it addresses systems, security, performance, or supply-chain needs.

  • Take part in on-call and incident response for systems your teams own, serve: as a technical escalation point during complex incidents, and turn lessons from incidents into lasting improvements.

What they're looking for

  • Partner with Product and Engineering leadership on platform roadmap decisions and investment trade-offs.
  • Mentor Senior and Intermediate engineers, reduce technical debt, build: reusable patterns that improve team throughput, and lead adoption of artificial intelligence-assisted and agentic workflows with quality, security, privacy, and operational guardrails.