Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Bubble is an AI visual development platform that empowers people to create scalable web, iOS, and Android applications. The Senior Software Engineer will build and scale backend infrastructure, improve performance and reliability, design observability systems, and support high-volume distributed services and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Implement the Bubble infrastructure that can scale to infinitely many apps of any size and complexity
• Improve performance and reliability across all backend services to scale our efficiency, capacity management, and data tier
• Design and implement observability across core parts of the system, define and implement SLOs, and work on an observability platform that exposes performance characteristics to end users
• Support billions of requests across a platform that supports arbitrary end user applications by designing, building, and iterating on core backbone services
• Build the workflow engine and scale the data tier to ensure reliability and scalability, supporting high-volume ingest, export, and workflows for diverse direct-to-consumer applications
• Build our next-generation cloud infrastructure, enhancing reliability, scalability, and availability, along with the foundational services and tools required to support it
• Participate in our triage and on-call process (along with the rest of the engineering team) to quickly diagnose and resolve issues, and implement the changes that will stop their recurrence

Requirements:

• Current senior engineer, or highly experienced engineer with 5+ years of experience in software development
• Understanding and hands-on experience with scalable distributed systems, including proficiency in languages and tools such as Node.js, Rust, PostgreSQL, Kafka and Terraform
• Strong problem-solving skills with a track record of implementing and supporting solutions that scale to complex and high-traffic applications
• Excellent communication skills to effectively partner with teammates and managers, and the ability to commit to and execute priorities
• Commitment to improving performance and reliability across backend services, including participation in on-call processes to quickly diagnose and resolve issues
• authorized to work in the U.S
• AWS experience is a plus