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Principal Backend Engineer

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 501-1,000Since 2012H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

143 days ago

Salary

$230K - $300K / year

Bachelor Degree10 yrs expEnglishAWSGraph QLKafkaKubernetesGo

Job Description

• Own the architecture for large-scale, complex product projects. • Own the implementation of critical features and systems, ensuring their ongoing health, scalability, and efficiency, while improving and modernizing the surrounding ecosystems. • Work with engineering, design, and product leadership to evolve existing features and innovate in new directions. • Lead efforts to improve engineering standards, tools, frameworks, and processes. • Mentor and develop other engineers on the team. • Attend Medium’s twice-yearly, in-person offsites (hosted in locations around the U.S.).

Job Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience as a software engineer building large-scale distributed backend systems.
  • Expert-level proficiency in Go (BONUS: Experience designing systems leveraging AWS, Kafka, GraphQL, Kubernetes, and Datadog).
  • Experience operating at Medium’s product/user scale (millions of users; continuous delivery; feature flags).
  • Experience modernizing legacy code bases.
  • Experience utilizing modern AI tooling to accelerate development efforts.
  • You’ve personally used Medium and are excited to contribute to Medium’s mission of deepening understanding through human storytelling.

Benefits

  • Working with a fully distributed team: We’re fully remote and have teammates across the U.S. & France.
  • Healthcare benefits covered at 100% for employees and 70% for dependents.
  • Generous parental leave policy & child education stipend.
  • Mental health support through Talkspace.
  • Financial wellness support through Northstar.
  • Stipends for wellness, co-working, professional development, wifi and a one-time home office bonus.
  • Unlimited PTO and standard company holidays.
  • A discounted Medium membership!

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