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Backend Platform Tech Lead
Instrumental Inc
Palo AltoHybrid3mo ago
- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Lead
About the role
- Experience leading the buildout of multi-tenant cloud platforms at scale, with good understanding of isolation, data growth, and performance tradeoffs.
- Successful track record of leading large, ambiguous projects end-to-end - defined the approach, sequenced the work across multiple engineers, and driven execution through to delivery.
- Skillful in leveraging and directing AI agents to improve your productivity.
- A reputable tech lead. A role model. Able to elevate the team through the quality of technical judgment and the willingness to engage deeply in design and code reviews.
- High energy. Can thrive in a fast-paced environment with a can-do attitude.
- 8+ years of experience in building large-scale cloud backend platforms. 3+ years in a technical architecture or equivalent leadership role.
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related majors.
- Strong proficiency in backend programming languages: Go (preferred), Rust, Java or Scala.
- Cloud-native architecture expertise (AWS preferred).
- Development and production experience on queuing and batch/stream processing (Kafka, Spark, Flink, Beam) at scale.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and data access.
- Startup experience building, scaling, and evolving SaaS platforms for IPO-scale growth.
- Has built backend platforms for highly specialized industries, such as manufacturing, networking, cybersecurity, and securities trading.
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