Job Url: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=4362330630&distance=25.0&f_AL=true&f_TPR=r86400&f_WT=2&geoId=103644278&keywords=software%20engineer&origin=JOB_SEARCH_PAGE_JOB_FILTER Job Description: Senior Backend Engineer Rise Technical · United States (Remote) Easy Apply Save Save Senior Backend Engineer at Rise Technical Show more options Your profile is missing required qualifications Show match details Help me update my profile BETA Is this information helpful? Get personalized tips to stand out to hirers Find jobs where you’re a top applicant and tailor your resume with the help of AI. Try Premium for PKR0 Meet the hiring team Luca Browning 3rd Specialist Recruitment Consultant, building out and scaling top start-up teams Job poster Message About the job Senior Backend Engineer (DevTools) $160,000 – $260,000 + Equity + Benefits + Training + PTO United States - Remote Are you looking to work on genuinely hard distributed systems problems, own critical infrastructure decisions from day one, and build open-source technology that thousands of developers depend on, all while working remotely with deep technical autonomy? The team is developing a source-available sync engine that bridges client-side SQLite with backend databases (Postgres, MongoDB, MySQL), allowing developers to build responsive, offline-capable software without wrestling with network complexity or inconsistent state. The system is already trusted in production environments handling large-scale datasets and complex replication topologies across diverse database ecosystems. To support rapid adoption and global deployments, the company is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with deep database expertise to strengthen and scale the server-side sync engine. You'll focus on performance, reliability, fault tolerance, and high-volume data flows—working at the intersection of backend engineering, distributed systems, and database internals. As a senior member of the engineering team, you'll own major backend initiatives, optimize large-scale workloads, enhance protocol-level behavior, and collaborate closely with open-source contributors and database experts. You'll have direct influence over core infrastructure used by a growing developer community, with the autonomy to drive architectural decisions and shape the technical roadmap. If you're looking for a role that combines systems-level engineering, distributed data challenges, and impactful open-source work—this is an outstanding opportunity. The Role Architect and implement scalable backend systems for high-concurrency sync workloads Own engineering initiatives end-to-end: design, implement, deploy, and support Improve and extend the core sync protocol at a systems-engineering level Build fault-tolerant mechanisms: failover, retries, monitoring, and resilience Optimize Postgres and MongoDB performance: query tuning, indexing, replication, throughput Lead backend database modules, resolving CDC buffer overflows, consistency gaps, and DB-specific edge cases Contribute production code across the monorepo: services, libraries, and microservices Collaborate with open-source contributors and database specialists Expand test coverage and support containerized deployments Every other Friday is a day off, and the remaining Friday’s can be spent working on relevant personal projects The Person 7+ years backend engineering, with 4+ years in database-heavy or data-intensive systems Expert-level Postgres and/or MongoDB: optimization, partitioning, replication, profiling Strong proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript Hands-on with distributed systems, microservices, and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Pulumi) Deep understanding of real-time streaming, sync protocols, and consistency models Proven debugging and performance-tuning skills (Prometheus, Grafana, DB monitoring tools) Excellent communicator comfortable with open-source collaboration Passionate about reliability, correctness, and building systems that scale