Staff Backend Engineer, Horizon3

• Ability to set technical direction for complex, business-critical systems and align partners around clear tradeoffs
• Strong judgment balancing data correctness, scalability, maintainability, customer impact, and delivery speed
• Excellent communication and collaboration across engineering and Product, including clear written design rationale
• A mentoring mindset and commitment to raising engineering quality across teams
• A high degree of ownership for systems in production, from architecture through incident follow-through
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial experience in backend services and APIs
• Track record of leading architecture or technical direction for complex, production-critical systems
• Strong experience with SQL, data modeling, distributed systems, and service reliability
• Experience influencing technical decisions across teams and mentoring other engineers
• Excellent judgment in balancing correctness, scalability, maintainability, and delivery speed
• Deep experience building and operating backend services in a modern language such as Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript
• Strong SQL and relational data modeling experience, along with API and service design for production systems
• Experience building cloud-hosted services and operating containerized applications such as Docker; familiarity with Kubernetes or a comparable orchestrator
• Experience with every example technology is not required; depth in relevant areas and the ability to make sound technical choices are important

Desirable

• As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Licensing, Usage & Entitlements team, you’ll provide hands-on technical leadership for the services that manage NodeZero packaging, customer entitlements, and usage enforcement
• You’ll shape how these business-critical capabilities scale across direct and partner accounts, and help ensure that the right products, capabilities, and limits are represented consistently
• You’ll lead complex initiatives that cross service boundaries and customer-account models, setting patterns for data correctness, safe evolution, and production support. You’ll partner across Product and Engineering while remaining deeply involved in implementation and operational outcomes
• Set technical direction for services that represent customer purchases, packaging, enabled capabilities, entitlements, and usage limits
• Design robust models and workflows that apply licensing and access rules consistently across direct and MSP/MSPP accounts
• Lead complex initiatives across services and customer-account models, remaining hands-on in implementation
• Establish patterns for data correctness, safe migrations, API evolution, observability, and production support
• Partner with Product and other engineering teams on requirements, integration points, and tradeoffs affecting customer access and usage
• Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, and clear technical writing
• Own resolution of difficult production problems and drive improvements that reduce recurrence and operational burden
• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice

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