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About the RoleWe are looking for a Staff Backend Platform Engineer with deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud-native backend engineering. This role requires strong operational excellence, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and observability while driving best practices in incident management, performance tuning, and automation.Key ResponsibilitiesSystem Architecture & ScalabilityDesign & Build: Architect and develop scalable, fault-tolerant backend systemsMicroservices Development: Implement microservices using Go, Java, or Python, ensuring high availability and resilience.Cloud & Kubernetes: Deploy and manage applications on AWS, GCP, or Azure with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS).Event-Driven Architectures: Work with Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ for distributed messaging and streaming workloads.Operational Excellence & Incident ManagementReliability & Resilience: Implement best practices for graceful degradation, retries, circuit breakers, and auto-scaling.Incident Response & On-Call Management: Define SLAs/SLIs/SLOs, set up robust alerting & escalation processes for incident handling.Postmortems & RCA (Root Cause Analysis): Lead post-incident analysis, drive corrective actions, and improve system reliability.Observability & Monitoring: Define and implement logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing using Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Datadog.Performance Optimization & SecurityPerformance Tuning: Diagnose and optimize latency, throughput, and memory utilization for large-scale distributed systems.Multithreading & Concurrency: Design and implement highly concurrent, multithreaded backend services for parallel processing.Database & Storage Optimization: Improve performance of SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis, MongoDB) solutions.Security & Compliance: Implement API security, authentication, authorization, and ensure compliance with SOC2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS.Leadership & CollaborationMentorship & Code Reviews: Guide engineers in best practices for platform engineering, microservices, and distributed systems.Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with cloud engineering, security, and product engineering teams to align platform capabilities with business needs.Key Qualifications10+ years of experience in backend platform engineering, distributed systems, and microservices.Strong programming expertise in Go, Java, or Python, with a focus on multithreading and concurrency.Expertise in Kubernetes, service meshes (Istio, Linkerd), and cloud infrastructure.Deep understanding of gRPC, REST APIs, GraphQL, and API performance tuning.Hands-on experience with CI/CD and infrastructure automation (Terraform, Pulumi).Proven ability to manage production incidents and other operatonal excellence practices.Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills in complex, distributed environments.