Senior Backend Engineer (Infrastructure)
San Francisco HQ$220k - $280kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Senior Backend Engineer focusing on infrastructure to scale Sphere's database, real-time queue, and container orchestration, with on-site work in San Francisco. Role involves solving scaling, latency, and availability challenges, collaborating with customers and partners, and shaping cloud-native infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Find solutions to Sphere's toughest scaling, performance, and latency problems
- Work closely with engineering team to define tooling to help us ship even faster
- Participate in an On Call rotation to solve critical production events
- Work directly with customers like Eleven Labs, Replit, Windsurf, and partners like Stripe, Chargebee, on their latency and availability requirements.
- Influence and implement the next generation of Sphere's database, real-time queue, and container orchestration infrastructure
- Work across our engineering organization to introduce and scale best practices with cloud-native technologies like Amazon ALB, ECS/EKS, Temporal, AWS SQS, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Elasticache Redis, and S3
- Build abstractions within Terraform to simplify the architecture and increase velocity and ownership
Qualifications
- Experience managing k8s clusters in AWS/GCP/Azure at scale
- Extensive experience shipping high-quality architectures for mission critical systems (focus on high availability, high load, low latency)
- Experience with Postgres at scale
Skills
Required:KubernetesPostgreSQLCloud providersTerraform
Nice to have:Python
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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