Senior Backend Engineer (Milan)

The role

The Senior Backend Engineer will help expand product features and scaling capabilities. You will maintain data processing pipelines, develop service availability tools, and contribute to back-end services and product features.

What you will do

• Maintain and improve the integrity of our data processing pipeline (5Tb per day)
• Develop tools to guarantee the availability of our services (~30 microservices) and automate their operation
• Contribute to the development of back-end services and product features

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer/SRE
• Language polyglot, advanced experience with at least 2 out of Java (Scala or Kotlin), C# (or F#) (.NET core), Python, NodeJS+TypeScript
• Experience with distributed systems
• Deep understanding of cloud services

Benefits

• Equity participation for every full-time team member
• Periodic equity refreshments based on performance
• A Pod
• Full access to health, vision, and dental insurance for you and your dependents
• Supplemental life insurance
• Flexible PTO
• Commuter benefits
• Paid parental leave

About the company

Eight Sleep is a sleep fitness company building hardware, software, and AI technology. They operate as a high-performance team focused on transforming sleep into a data-driven recovery experience.