Senior Backend Engineer - Platform
Hybrid (New York City)$250k - $300kFull-timePosted 4d ago
About the role
Backend engineer role at Piramidal focusing on building and scaling real-time neural monitoring infrastructure, with emphasis on high-throughput streaming, real-time analytics, and regulated medical-grade reliability. Based in New York, full-time with client-site travel.
Responsibilities
- Build and run Python and Go services that consume, transform, and serve real-time streams of neurological data.
- Design, maintain, and improve data models, ingestion pipelines and retention for high frequency time series data, from raw neurological data, to all time series derived from it.
- Build and extend the APIs behind clinical workflows.
- Work with ML engineers to take models from research to production inference, and keep them running there.
- Make the platform observable and dependable: metrics, alerting, capacity planning, and incident follow-up.
- Help build software to the standards of a regulated medical device, including cybersecurity, traceability and change control.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of building and operating backend systems in production
- Ability to own a problem from an ambiguous start to a running, monitored service, and communicate decisions clearly
- Real experience with event-driven or stream-processing systems: partitioning, checkpointing, backpressure, and at-least-once delivery
- Strong Python, including concurrency (threads vs. processes, asyncio) and testing
- Proficiency with containerization and orchestration, preferably using Kubernetes
- Solid relational database skills, from schema design to query performance
Skills
Required:PythonKafka
Nice to have:GoAWSAzure
Benefits
- Base salary range: $250,000 – $300,000, depending on experience and skills.
- Meaningful equity plan.
- Comprehensive health coverage, including premium medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Daily lunch budget.
- Monthly gym subscription.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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