Backend Engineer, Events

Confidential is a high-growth, remote-first technology company building automation and AI infrastructure used by millions of businesses globally. The Events Team is responsible for a high-scale event streaming platform, and this role focuses on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and evolution of that system.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

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