Job Title: Backend Engineer, Events

Company Name: Confidential

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Backend Engineer, Events 

Confidential • United States (Remote)



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Backend Engineer, Events 

United States · 7 hours ago · Over 100 applicants

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We’re partnering with a high-growth, remote-first technology company building automation and AI infrastructure used by millions of businesses globally.



The Events Team owns and operates a high-scale event streaming platform that processes billions of events per day. This role is critical to ensuring the reliability, scalability, and evolution of that system.



What You’ll Do

Design, build, and maintain scalable event-driven systems using Kafka (MSK)
Develop and manage AWS-based infrastructure (SQS, S3, Lambda, Aurora, Redis) with Terraform
Improve resiliency, observability, and performance across distributed systems
Build internal libraries and tooling to simplify event publishing and consumption for other teams
Contribute to data governance and data hygiene practices
Refactor and evolve systems as technologies and best practices advance
Participate in on-call rotations to maintain uptime and reliability
Collaborate through code reviews, technical discussions, and mentoring


Must-Haves (All Required)

5+ years of software development experience
Strong proficiency in Python
Hands-on experience with Kafka/MSK and event/streaming systems at scale (2+ years)
Experience designing and supporting highly available cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform or similar)
Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability, and observability
Collaborative mindset and ability to work effectively in a remote environment


Nice to Have

Experience with Go
SRE or production support experience
Experience with cloud queue systems (SQS preferred)
CI/CD pipeline experience (e.g., GitLab)


Tech Stack

Python, Go, TypeScript

Kafka (MSK), Avro

AWS (S3, Lambda, Aurora, Redis, SQS)

Distributed data stores

 erraform (Infrastructure-as-Code)



About the Company (Confidential)

This remote-first company builds scalable automation and AI systems that power millions of businesses worldwide. They combine modern infrastructure, strong engineering culture, and a mission-driven approach to make powerful technology accessible to teams everywhere.

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• 5+ years of work experience with Python (Programming Language)

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