Staff/Principal Software Engineer - Backend

Faros AI • San Mateo, CA

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About The Position

We’re looking for software engineers who want to build the future of engineering operations with us. This is a hands-on role. While you will drive architectural vision and mentor senior engineers, you will spend a significant portion of your time writing code, building core systems, and solving our most complex technical challenges.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years with ownership of critical components or services
• Expert-level proficiency in TypeScript + Node.js and/or Python
• Experience designing/consuming/implementing REST/GraphQL APIs
• Experience with building & productionizing web services, data pipelines, ETL/ELT, orchestration frameworks
• Strong database fundamentals (SQL/NoSQL)
• CI/CD familiarity (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.)
• Experience running production workloads including monitoring, alerting, logging, metrics, traces, oncall
• Security fundamentals
• Hands-on experience with one of more major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, GCP (certifications are a plus)
• Comfortable working with distributed international teams
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
• English C1: able to participate in technical calls and write clear communication.
• Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering, or equivalent real-world experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with building & integrating with SaaS platforms
• Experience with engineering analytics or developer-productivity tooling
• Experience with IaC, containers, serverless, queues/event-driven architectures
• Experience with security practices (authN/authZ, secrets management)
• Familiarity with engineering metrics (DORA, code quality, delivery metrics)
• Hands-on experience using coding agents (AI-assisted development)

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and scale our highly scalable data infrastructure and core engineering platforms, owning the hardest technical problems from whiteboard design all the way through to production deployment.
• Lead from the front by writing high-quality, resilient code, establishing architectural standards, and building best practices for backend services/APIs to ensure system-wide reliability, security, and scalability.
• Act as a technical partner to product and engineering leadership, translating business strategy into technical roadmaps and mentoring other engineers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior