Senior Backend Engineer, Checkly
€79-107k
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Monitoring and testing platform for DevOps teams
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Monitoring and testing platform for DevOps teams
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
€79-107k
Offers Equity. Salary dependent on location
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To detect and resolve issues 100x faster.
Role
Who you are
- You have deep experience in building applications in a professional product (SaaS) environment, with TypeScript (Go is a plus). Our platform runs services in both TypeScript and Go — you will work across both stacks and can ramp up on Go after joining
- You’re excited about developer tooling, and testing frameworks like Playwright
- You have experience building distributed systems on AWS/GCP or bare metal servers
- You want business impact and the visibility that a startup offers
- You like to work in a growing company with experienced founders
- You assume good intentions and are a great communicator in spoken and written English
- You're autonomous and self-motivated in a remote environment. You genuinely enjoy getting to know your colleagues and helping others
- You are able to contribute across the stack and are quick to pick up on new stuff and enjoy the process of learning new things
- You love making software!
What the job involves
- Join Checkly as a Senior Backend Engineer and empower developers and agents to own and ensure application performance and reliability - from pull request to post-mortem!
- You'll join Team Tree, we handle enterprise enablement. That means our work cuts across the entire platform and touches areas such as uptime monitoring (TCP, DNS, URL, ICMP), Private Locations, RBAC, entitlements, and multi-account management. Everything that makes Checkly work for large organizations
- We are a small team with high autonomy. Enterprise work means priorities can change, so we keep plans loose and move fast when they do. You'll own problems end-to-end and ship things that unblock real customers
- Our backend runs on Hapi.js, Golang and a mix of AWS and bare metal server monitoring infrastructure, distributed around the globe. We ran over 2.5 billion checks already and are ramping up for a lot more
- To give you a clear idea of what the job could entail, here are some examples of the work we’ve done lately or will start soon:
- Own and evolve our uptime monitoring platform, driving new capabilities to customers observe and protect the most critical parts of their infrastructure at scale
- Work with infra to deploy our own Clickhouse instance to capture check run logs and metadata. Design and implement an API on this datastore that allows customers to run reports on their check runs
- Work with a customer to hunt down a bug that lets certain checks fail in their private location infrastructure
- You will improve our status pages product to elevate it toward an industry-leading standard of reliability, transparency, and real-time communication
- You'll work on scaling our current backend platform to meet the demands of our growing business, and participate in our on-call rotation to keep everything running smoothly around the clock
Our take
DevOps introduced more automation to the software development process and lifecycle, allowing new applications to be on the market at a quicker pace. But with progress comes changes and new requirements for developing, testing, and deploying applications, thus requiring transformation for modern monitoring systems.
Checkly is an active monitoring platform designed for developers. The API is programmable, flexible, and works well with JavaScript. Checkly allows cross-functional DevOps and engineering teams to run deep API monitoring and Javascript-powered flexible frontend tests across 20+ global data center locations.
The transaction monitoring tool makes it easy to regularly test interactions with front-end websites without having to actually write any code. Pricing for its services starts at $7 per month for individual developers, with plans for small teams starting at $29 per month. Looking ahead, funding will be used to expand Checkly’s engineering team and build out its platform.
Kirsty
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2024
$20m
SERIES B
Jun 2021
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $32.3m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary & stock options
- $1,500 learning, visiting & wellbeing budget
- 27 days of vacation & local public holidays
- Inclusive health package
- Home office setup
- Remote-first
- Team retreats
- Paid sick leave
- Employment & contractor options
- Inclusive paid parental leave
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Hannes Lenke
(Co-Founder & CEO)Hannes previously co-founded Berlin Mobile Quality Crew and TestObject. He also spent 3 years at Sauce Labs as a General Manager EMEA, and VP of New Ventures & General Manager of Germany.
Tim Nolet
(Co-Founder)Tim has 20 years experience in enterprise and Java. He originally studied to be an art historian.
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