Staff Backend Engineer, Platform Engineering – KDE Query

Role Overview

• You will work closely with customer service, product, and other engineering teams to develop new network data observability & intelligence features.
• Act as a lead Individual Contributor to improve Query services, focusing on query speeds, throughput, and latency
• Collaborate with other engineering, support, and sales teams to drive platform-wide query standards.
• Solve high-visibility, challenging engineering problems related to the data-intensive query engine.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in backend development using Go/C/Rust, with a strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and high-throughput data pipelines.
• Deep experience with query planning, optimization, and execution in distributed environments, is a big plus.
• Proven track record of optimizing distributed systems to handle hundreds of millions of data points per second.
• A passion to grow personally and contribute to our team.
• Strong collaboration skills, essential for Kentik's remote-friendly culture.

Tech Stack

• Distributed Systems
• Rust
• Go

Benefits

• 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
• Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
• Paid family & medical leave
• Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
• 401(k) retirement account
• Home office reimbursement
• Stock options