Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Data Layer
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Data Layer
Senior backend engineering role focused on building and evolving the data layer behind a large-scale enterprise process platform. Requires 7+ years of backend experience with deep expertise in relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch. Fully remote position within the eligible EMEA region, emphasizing technical ownership, collaboration, and production excellence.
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Data Layer
Senior backend engineering role focused on building and evolving the data layer behind a large-scale enterprise process platform. Requires 7+ years of backend experience with deep expertise in relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch. Fully remote position within the eligible EMEA region, emphasizing technical ownership, collaboration, and production excellence.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain, and improve backend services responsible for storing and serving process data at enterprise scale.
- Develop solutions across relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, balancing correctness, performance, availability, scalability, and maintainability.
- Own engineering initiatives from requirements discovery and solution design through implementation, coordination, delivery, and production rollout.
- Partner closely with Product Management and cross-functional engineering teams to translate business and customer requirements into actionable technical solutions.
- Evolve data processing, retention, storage, and exposure capabilities to meet changing customer and product requirements.
- Improve the performance and scalability of secondary storage systems as usage and data volumes grow.
- Build internal tooling and operational capabilities that make the data layer easier to understand, troubleshoot, monitor, and operate safely in production.
- Investigate production data issues, including slow queries, execution plans, indexing problems, and other performance bottlenecks, and drive them through root-cause analysis and resolution.
- Participate in L3 support and on-call rotations, collaborating with Support and Site Reliability Engineering teams to resolve production incidents.
- Use production learnings and operational insights to continuously improve the reliability, performance, and usability of the data layer.
- Provide and receive clear, constructive feedback through code reviews and technical collaboration.
- Contribute to the evolution of engineering practices and architecture within a remote-first, cross-functional environment.