Similarweb
SeniorBackendEngineer,PlatformFoundations
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“Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Foundations at Similarweb. Skills: Backend development, Infrastructure, Platform engineering, AI tools. Design scalable backend services. Build reusable libraries”
What You'll Achieve.
empower over 4,300 customers globally; make game-changing decisions; drive their digital strategies; serving tens of thousands of customers; serving hundreds of terabytes in production; enabling product teams to focus on delivering business value; ensuring healthy production environments; ensuring rapid development cycles; accelerating development processes; assess applicability and benefits; improving infrastructure scalability; improving infrastructure reliability; improving developer experience; ensuring minimal downtime; ensuring optimal performance; supports rapid development; supports scaling needs
Industry & Context.
solving bottle-necks; Analyze and resolve complex production issues
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of experience in backend development, focus on infrastructure and platform engineering, Proficiency in programming languages such as C#, Python, Java, or Go, Experience building large-scale infrastructure applications or large-scale web applications, Experience improving stability of large-scale systems using monitoring, solving bottle-necks and making appropriate changes, High coding standards, working independently, experience leading long term tech tasks involving many teams and stakeholders, Experience with cloud platforms (e. g. , AWS, GCP, Azure), container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tools (e. g. , Terraform, Ansible), Demonstrated experience in integrating and leveraging AI tools to enhance development workflows
Nice to Have
AI agents and platforms
What You'll Do.
Design scalable backend services
Build reusable libraries
Maintain reusable libraries
Build development tools
Maintain development tools
Define best practices
Promote best practices
Lead AI tool adoption
Perform proof-of-concepts
Drive cross-team technical projects
Analyze production issues
Resolve production issues
Contribute to system architecture evolution
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Drive cross-team technical projects; working closely with product; collaborating with our colleagues in-office
Process & Methodology
leading long term tech tasks
Full Job Description
At Similarweb, we are revolutionizing the way businesses interact with the digital world by revealing to them everything that happens online. Our unique data and solutions empower over 4,300 customers globally, including industry giants like Google, eBay, and Adidas, to make game-changing decisions that drive their digital strategies. In 2021, we went public on the New York Stock Exchange, and we continue to reach new heights! Come work alongside Similarwebbers across the globe who are bright, curious, practical and good people. Why is this role so important at Similarweb? You’ll be part of the group responsible for Similarweb’s main products. You will impact the work of developers in the group by designing, building and maintaining the core infrastructure of our solution and leading the research and development of new technologies as well as maintaining code standards and practices. What does the day to day of Infrastructure Engineer at Similarweb look like: You will be working on Similarweb’s core B2B platform that serves tens of thousands of customers, serving hundreds of terabytes in production. Our backend engineers are responsible for the entire data lifecycle - from our endless datatlakes, through choosing the right serving methods and databases, all the way to our api services. So, what will you be doing all day? Design and implement scalable backend services and libraries that are reusable and maintainable, serving as the foundation for various applications across the company. Build and maintain tools that streamline development workflows, enabling product teams to focus on delivering business value. Define and promote best practices for code quality, performance, and reliability, ensuring healthy production environments and rapid development cycles. Lead the adoption and integration of AI tools to assist in code generation, testing, documentation, and debugging, thereby accelerating development processes. Perform proof-of-concepts (POCs) on emerging techno
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