Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Backend (US - Remote or Calgary)

Syndio is a pay governance and compensation intelligence platform that helps organizations make fairer, more informed compensation decisions. The Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer will design, build, and scale high-throughput distributed systems, owning backend services end-to-end from API design and data modeling through infrastructure deployment, monitoring, and production operations.

Responsibilities:

• Design, ship, and operate core distributed microservices written in Go and Python
• Build real-time event streaming and data processing pipelines using Kafka
• Architect performant, flexible API interfaces across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC protocols
• Design efficient schemas and optimize query performance for relational storage using Postgres and modern ORMs
• Provision, maintain, and scale cloud infrastructure across GCP and AWS using Terraform and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
• Ensure high reliability, low latency, and operational visibility across backend systems using Datadog

Requirements:

• 7+ years building and operating backend systems in production
• Deep comfort with Go and Python, with strong experience building concurrent, high-performance systems
• Strong database fundamentals with Postgres and relational ORMs, including query optimization and schema migration strategies
• Experience building and maintaining event-driven architectures with Kafka
• Expertise designing production APIs across REST, GraphQL, or gRPC
• Hands-on experience with cloud environments (GCP and/or AWS), Infrastructure as Code via Terraform, and continuous delivery via GitHub Actions
• Operational mindset: familiarity with observability, distributed tracing, and metrics tooling in Datadog
• Strong written communication to author design docs and lead clear PR reviews
• Own a technical domain with light supervision: propose direction in writing with clear specs, take review, ship, and carry the pager for what you shipped