Full-Time Senior Staff Software Engineer, API Platform - Python

• Architect and evolve our real-time API platform for scalability, low-latency, and high availability.
• Lead design and implementation of platform-wide projects.
• Partner with engineering managers, staff engineers, product managers, and infrastructure teams.
• Define and promote best practices for API design, versioning, patterns, and developer experience.
• Lead technical deep dives, reviews, and postmortems to improve engineering quality.
• Work with SREs and DevOps to improve observability, incident response, and system tuning.

• 10+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering with a focus on distributed systems and API design
• Experience designing and operating real-time, low-latency API platforms at scale
• Experience with protocols (HTTP, gRPC, WebSockets), caching, load balancing, and API security
• Experience with at least one modern backend language (Go, Java, Rust, or Node.js).
• Knowledge of distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and modern backend stacks (e.g., Node.js, Java, Go, or Python)
• AWS and Python experience
• Experience with API gateways, load balancing, caching, and observability tools (Kibana, Grafana, Datadog, and Prometheus)
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues (Kafka) and stream processing frameworks
• DevOps Knowledge: Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience influencing technical direction beyond your immediate team

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