Software Engineer II, Platform

Bubble is hiring a Software Engineer II for its Scaling team. The role focuses on building and improving infrastructure and backend systems for scalability, reliability, performance, and data management across Bubble’s app-building platform.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the Bubble infrastructure that scales to infinitely many apps of any size and complexity
• Help improve performance and reliability across backend services, supporting our efficiency, capacity management, and data tier
• Support observability efforts across core parts of the system, helping implement SLOs and surface performance characteristics to end users
• Help support billions of requests across a platform that powers arbitrary end user applications, by building and iterating on core backbone services
• Contribute to the workflow engine and data tier, supporting high-volume ingest, export, and workflows for diverse direct-to-consumer applications
• Build foundational services and tools that support our next-generation cloud infrastructure
• Participate in our triage and on-call process (along with the rest of the engineering team) to diagnose and resolve issues, and help implement changes that prevent recurrence

Requirements:

• 2+ years of industry experience as a software engineer
• Strong coding skills
• Some understanding of scalable distributed systems, and a willingness to build proficiency with languages and tools such as Node.js, Rust, PostgreSQL, and Terraform (AWS experience is a plus)
• Ownership mindset, taking initiative to build and fix
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a track record of contributing to 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
• Willingness to participate in on-call processes to help quickly diagnose and resolve issues
• Alignment with our values, including a desire to empower others, a focus on team and user success over individual achievement, and transparency and willingness to admit mistakes and failures
• authorized to work in the U.S
• preferably with experience in high-growth startups
• familiarity and a willingness to learn fast is helpful