Senior Backend Engineer

### Responsibilities - Design, build, and maintain a unified Go-based instrumentation service that consolidates instrumentation across the entire company, eliminating the need for multiple language-specific SDKs while maintaining reliability and performance. - Own the responsibility for handling the sending, transit, and quality of instrumentation data across the system, ensuring data integrity that directly impacts the company's strategic decision-making and usage billing accuracy. - Train and support product development teams across the company on how to instrument their features using the unified service, providing documentation, guidance, and technical support. - Manage on-call responsibilities during working hours for systems responsible for usage billing and instrumentation, ensuring system reliability and quick response to critical issues. - Lead collaboration across research and development teams and the enterprise data organization to understand requirements and deliver solutions that serve multiple stakeholders. - Make strategic architectural decisions that balance the needs of product teams with data consumers, ensuring the system serves as a foundational service for the company. ### Requirements - Proficiency in the Go programming language, with experience building and maintaining production services. - Strong backend development experience, with the ability to design scalable, reliable systems serving internal and external customers. - Experience with infrastructure concerns such as system reliability, performance at scale, data quality, and observability. - Experience designing and building APIs (REST, gRPC, or similar) that other teams integrate with. - Experience working in collaborative, cross-functional teams with product teams, data consumers, and other internal stakeholders across team boundaries. - Experience with instrumentation, analytics, data systems, or similar foundational infrastructure is helpful, along with Ruby on Rails experience.