Senior Staff Backend Engineer, Archer

• 10+ years backend engineering experience
• Strong hands-on experience in Go (or equivalent backend experience with willingness to work in Go)
• Deep expertise with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL, to include:
• Schema design
• Performance tuning
• Indexing strategies
• Query plan analysis
• Experience building and operating distributed systems
• Experience defining and implementing typed service contracts
• AWS or other cloud-native infrastructure experience
• Strong understanding of reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, consistency)
• Demonstrated experience defining and developing APIs and SDKs

Desirable

• As a Senior Staff Backend Engineer on the Platform Core team, you will build the services that power the platform foundation — the Entity Registry, change tracking, typed source system connectors, and the integration infrastructure that every application depends on
• This role focuses on Go backend services, PostgreSQL performance, and building durable infrastructure that application teams program against through the Platform SDK
• Build and maintain core backend services (Go preferred)
• Build scalable systems that use a range of inter-process communication mechanisms (blackboard, direct, queues, etc.)
• Build common data models from diverse data sources
• Build APIs and SDKs that accelerate application development
• Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas for performance and evolution
• Define and implement strongly typed reusable APIs (gRPC/protobuf or REST/OpenAPI)
• Develop entity CRUD, search, and traversal capabilities
• Implement change tracking and event propagation patterns (e.g., outbox pattern)
• Optimize database performance (indexing strategy, query planning, connection management)
• Implement middleware for authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and audit logging
• Contribute to observability, reliability, and CI/CD standards
• Collaborate with platform and application teams to validate services in production use cases
• Support AI-assisted workflows by exposing clean, structured APIs suitable for controlled automation