Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Job Overview

Join Hasura as a Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Backend, where you will play a pivotal role in driving key business and product goals. You will be part of the Hasura DDN Control Plane Services team, working on building highly scalable distributed systems to enhance our core product. Your work will help execute the vision of making data access 10x easier by building easy-to-use, planet-scale, low-latency, reliable Cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Solving Hard Problems: Architect solutions for complex problems both independently and collaboratively, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Product Thinking: Understand ambiguous customer requirements and formulate solutions that align strategically with the product.
• Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to team members during technical problem solving and code reviews.
• Implementing Engineering Best Practices: Identify opportunities to improve engineering best practices to enhance software production and quality.
• Collaborating with Stakeholders: Foster strong collaboration and communication with key stakeholders across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development, with a focus on data structures and algorithms.
• 5 years of experience in testing and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience with service-oriented architecture.

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional projects.

Requirements

• Extremely comfortable with async communication over Slack and writing technical RFCs.
• Deep understanding of at least one systems programming language, e.g., Rust/Go.
• Strong knowledge of at least two popular cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Strong distributed system design fundamentals.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.

Working at Hasura

At Hasura, we help developers go from zero to fully-fledged modern apps, blazing fast. Through your work at Hasura, you will have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on both how Hasura is built as well as the larger developer ecosystem.

Perks of Working at Hasura

• Remote & Hybrid Work Environment: Our team is spread across 18 countries.
• Self-care Fridays: We have the second Friday of every month off.
• Equipment and Learning Allowance: Budgets to ensure team members have what they need.
• Donation Matching: USD 20,000/year to match employee donations.
• Flexible Timings & PTO: Pick work hours that suit you best.

We are on a mission to make developing modern apps and faster APIs a cakewalk, and we can’t wait to have you onboard with us! We welcome any questions during the interview process that you may have about our culture, the kind of work we do, and the process we employ to make it all come together.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not tolerate discrimination of any kind.

Applying

Even if you don’t fulfill 100% of the above requirements or are unsure whether this would be the right fit, we’d love to hear from you. We welcome any questions during the interview process that you may have about our culture, the kind of work we do, and the process we employ to make it all come together.