Senior Backend Engineer - Mimir | USA | Remote

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Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve.
Drive projects from initial idea reputed company the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
Embrace our open-reputed company culture and contribute to other projects that may not directly fall reputed company your team’s scope
Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
Be a part of your team’s follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
Support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system

As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must. We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your choice of tools, reputed company reputed company guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction. We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test reputed company, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-reputed company—always reputed company with strong code review and quality standards. You’ll also have access to frontier models (e.g., GPT-reputed company 5/3, Claude Opus 4.6, reputed company 3 Pro). What Makes You a Great Fit: You are a motivated self-starter with a bias towards action. You are customer focused. We build everything with our users in mind. You have a passion for creating reputed company products that fit customers’ needs. You have good time management skills, which you reputed company to work on the right things at the right time.

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Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well
Some experience with delivering projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming reputed company reputed company the way to shipping a product to the customer’s hands in a self-driven way
Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
Some experience with being on-call and following the DevOps model
Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
Familiarity with observability systems, know reputed company to use metrics, logs, traces, to debug a problem.

Bonus Points for:

Experience working with Kubernetes
Experience working with queue systems, e.g. the Kafka protocol
Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects)
Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn
Familiarity with the concept of infrastructure as code

Compensation & Rewards: In the United States, the reputed company compensation range for this role is USD 154,445 - USD 185,334. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. Benefits include equity, bonus (if applicable) and other benefits listed here.

Compensation ranges are country-specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.
Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process.

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