Job Url: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/prefect/d68d6dcd-ec99-4887-872c-45931d26fc14?utm_source=adzuna&utm_medium=adzuna

Job Description: Senior Backend Engineer
Location
Remote

Employment Type
Full time

Location Type
Remote

Department
Engineering

Compensation
SF Bay Area & NYC Metro
Estimated Base Salary $194K – $242K • Offers Equity
Washington D.C., Boston, Los Angeles, & Seattle
Estimated Base Salary $176K – $221K • Offers Equity
Denver, Chicago, Atlanta, & all other U.S. metros
Estimated Base Salary $172K – $214K • Offers Equity
Five principles guide our compensation philosophy: data-supported, fair, competitive, proactive, and performance-based.

We have established salary ranges for each role and a competitive overall total rewards program.

Overview
Application
Prefect is focused on making complex systems easy to trust, and has emerged as the next-generation workflow orchestration platform, with a pythonic, developer-first approach.

Our remote first company is singularly focused on this vision, and every team member directly contributes to its advancement. Every role solves a problem, and everyone can see exactly how their work helps achieve our mission.

To that end, we've carefully created a supportive, high-performance culture - the operating system of our company - that empowers our team to do the best work of their careers and achieve their personal and professional aspirations.

The company operates both open-source and commercial offerings, orchestrating mission critical workflows for Fortune 500 companies, data innovators, and rising startups. We are looking for folks who want to join a remote-first team #LI-Remote to continue building an equally amazing company, product, and developer community.

Role Summary:
Join a small, senior engineering group to build, maintain, and scale our SaaS platforms. To succeed in this role, you’ll need to be comfortable with Python, have experience operating data intensive applications at scale, and enjoy engaging with cross-functional teams to understand which technical solution best delivers for our product.

The right person is a pragmatic Python engineer who thrives in high‑ambiguity startup environments and has repeatedly shipped meaningful backend systems at early‑stage companies.

You'll report to Prefect's Director of Engineering, Jenny.