Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)
Telnyx
Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)
Telnyx is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join its WebRTC squad, responsible for building, operating, and evolving backend services behind real-time communications and Voice SDK platform. The role requires strong experience in distributed systems, Elixir or Erlang, and production infrastructure, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and observability.
Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)
Telnyx is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join its WebRTC squad, responsible for building, operating, and evolving backend services behind real-time communications and Voice SDK platform. The role requires strong experience in distributed systems, Elixir or Erlang, and production infrastructure, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and observability.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain, and operate backend services supporting WebRTC and Voice SDK products.
- Take ownership of backend systems including Voice SDK proxy services, authentication and token services, push notification services, RTC DNS, and diagnostic logging.
- Improve the reliability, scalability, and maintainability of customer-facing backend services.
- Improve connection setup, authentication flows, routing, and service behavior across real-time communication workloads.
- Build and improve observability through logs, metrics, dashboards, alerts, and other operational tooling.
- Improve visibility into push notification delivery and help make integrations with services such as APNs and FCM easier to monitor and troubleshoot.
- Diagnose production issues across backend services, networking layers, and client connectivity.
- Improve deployment processes, rollout safety, and production readiness for distributed services.
- Turn recurring customer and operational issues into durable engineering improvements.
- Collaborate closely with mobile, JavaScript, infrastructure, and other engineering teams to improve end-to-end reliability.
- Help shape the architecture and technical direction of the backend systems supporting WebRTC products.