Staff Software Engineer at Ground News responsible for backend system reliability and scalability. Collaborating with engineering teams to design and operate services for news comparison platform.
Responsibilities
Take on SRE-shaped responsibilities such as monitoring, alerting, incident response, and performance tuning to keep our services reliable and scalable in production.
Manage infrastructure as code and deployment workflows across AWS and GCP, using Kubernetes and OpenTofu (Terraform) to ship changes safely.
Act as a senior voice in code review, expediting the PR process primarily across backend and infrastructure while also supporting the frontend where possible.
Partner with Customer Success to triage, prioritize, and resolve user-impacting issues, and relay that context back to the broader product and engineering teams.
Contribute a senior voice to architecture and systems design discussions, helping steer technical decisions in the right direction.
Champion high engineering quality through testing, code reviews, observability, and thoughtful operational practices.
Own the services you build, monitoring system health and responding to incidents with urgency.
Requirements
15+ years of experience maintaining and operating high-performing, production backend systems.
Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript.
Strong experience designing, building, and integrating RESTful APIs and the services behind them.
Solid knowledge of distributed systems design and architecture patterns.
Hands-on experience operating services in the cloud (AWS and/or GCP).
SRE-oriented experience: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and performance optimization for production systems.
Experience with data stores and event-driven systems such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and message queues or streams (Kafka, SQS, or Pub/Sub).
A track record of shipping and scaling reliable services for a successful consumer product.
Experience planning and executing rollouts safely.
A collaborative approach to code review and cross-functional work.
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