Backend Engineer at Circuit
Overview
Staff Backend Engineer role at Circuit focuses on scaling backend systems and infrastructure. This position leads design and scaling of backend services in Go while owning data platform layers. Engineers will ship reliable systems handling massive data growth and manage complex technical decisions. The role emphasizes autonomy and impact on production systems.
What You'll Do11
- 1Lead design implementation and scaling of backend infrastructure primarily in Go
- 2Own data platform layer designing database sharding and self-hosted Postgres solutions
- 3Design safe data migration strategies for production environments with minimal downtime
- 4Ensure backend systems remain resilient observable and performant under high load
- 5Drive architectural decisions for long-term scalability and maintainability
- 6Contribute significant code to core systems focusing on efficiency and developer velocity
- 7Establish engineering best practices across the backend team
- 8Collaborate with product ML and frontend teams to deliver high-quality features
- 9Mentor and support engineers fostering knowledge sharing
- 10Turn ambiguous problem statements into shipped reliable backend systems
- 11Manage Postgres operations including tuning replication and vacuuming
Requirements5
- 15+ years building ETL pipelines with Spark and Airflow
- 2Deep knowledge of Go performance optimization concurrency and distributed systems
- 3Extensive experience managing Postgres in production including storage optimization
- 4Proven experience with self-hosted Postgres including infrastructure configuration
- 5Background in data migrations and database scaling strategies
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