As a Backend Engineer at Nightfall, you ll enable us to deliver our platform reliably, securely, and at a massive scale. You ll help architect low latency, real-time microservices that process & detect sensitive data at scale.
Responsibilities
Building highly available and secure authentication and API services.
Maintaining and evolving mission-critical internal databases and services.
Optimizing and operating high volume auto-scaling streaming data services.
Instrumenting streaming data services for visibility into utilization per customer.
Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services.
Requirements
Expertise in one or more systems/high-level programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Java, C++) and the eagerness to learn more.
Experience running scalable (thousands of RPS) and reliable (three 9 s) systems.
Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to substantial data volumes or millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring, and reliability.
Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. MySQL, Cassandra)
Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them
Data Processing - experience with building and maintaining large scale and/or real-time complex data processing pipelines using Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, Storm, or Zookeeper