Senior Backend Engineer

Our client makes safeguarding sensitive data for every application simple and seamless. Organizations, from startups to global brands, trust Nightfall's software platform and APIs to classify and protect sensitive data. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll enable us to deliver our platform reliably, securely, and at massive scale. You'll help architect low latency, real-time microservices that process & detect sensitive data at scale.

Responsibilities:

1. Building highly-available and secure authentication and API services.
2. Maintaining and evolving mission-critical internal databases and services.
3. Optimizing and operating high volume auto-scaling streaming data services.
4. Instrumenting streaming data services for visibility into utilization per customer.
5. Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services.
6. Working with product and other stakeholders to define features.

Tools We Use:

Go, Node.js, React, Python, Cassandra, Redis, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, Envoy, CircleCI.

Must haves:

1. Expertise in one or more systems/high-level programming (e.g. Python, Go, Java, C++) and the eagerness to learn more.
2. Experience running scalable (thousands of RPS) and reliable (three 9's) systems.
3. Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to substantial data volumes or millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring and reliability.
4. Experience in integrating with third party APIs.
5. Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. MySQL, Cassandra).
6. Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them.
7. Data Processing - experience with building and maintaining large scale and/or real-time complex data processing pipelines using Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, Storm, or Zookeeper.
8. 4+ years of experience.