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Staff Backend Engineer

๐Ÿ’ฐ $160,000 - $240,000 ๐Ÿ“… 02/13/2023

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Job Description

### Why weโ€™re looking for you

We are looking for an engineer who wants to help build our core product suite
and optimize it for use in a high-volume, low-latency, and high-availability
production environment. Weโ€™re already processing >1 million API calls per day
and have ingested >1 TB of data. Reliability and scalability are - and will
continue to be - mission critical for Cove, and will heavily influence how we
architect and build our products. We need an engineer whoโ€™s willing to not
only own large features, but also drive our scaling efforts so we can deliver
on our promise to protect billions of Internet users around the world.

### Responsibilities

* Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure that powers Coveโ€™s platform
* Lead and define the scope, design, implementation, and deployment of robust distributed services, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity, and cost
* Architect and tech-lead the backend of core Cove features and APIs
* Participate in design and architecture reviews for new features, products, or pieces of infrastructure
* Help define and evolve our tech stack as we scale the product
* Help us hire a world-class team and mentor new team members

### Preferred qualifications

* Deep alignment with our mission of building a safer Internet
* 5+ years experience in backend engineering
* Experience architecting and building 0-1 services in a large-scale production setting
* Familiarity with Node.js, JavaScript and/or TypeScript, and SQL.
* Experience building containerized applications with Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code. Familiarity with AWS is a plus.
* Experience architecting and developing distributed systems
* An orientation towards impact โ€” on your own projects, throughout Cove, and across the world
* A high standard, for yourself and others, when working with production systems
* Open communication skills โ€” ask questions, assume good intentions, and default to transparency
* Rigor and empathy that help you thrive in a collaborative and high-performance environment

Cove focuses on SaaS and Enterprise Software. Their company has offices in New
York City. They have a small team that's between 1-10 employees.

You can view their website at <http://www.getcove.com> or find them on
[Twitter](http://twitter.com/covesoftware) and
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cove-software).