Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Amsterdam office, Remote. Posted 22 days ago

The role

You will join the Chat or Activity Feeds team to own backend systems. You will write code, touch databases, and manage how systems are structured and scaled.

What you will do

Own backend systems from structure to scale
Write code and touch databases
Manage infrastructure and database work

Required qualifications

Extensive backend engineering experience, including technical leadership on systems in production
Proficiency in Go, Python, or in another backend language plus the willingness to switch to Go
Experience building features used by a large number of users, and scaling them as usage grows
Strong experience with a relational database
Hands-on experience with Redis or a similar in-memory data store
Experience building public APIs or SDKs that other developers use
Comfort with infrastructure and database work including Kubernetes
Good written and spoken English

Nice to have

PostgreSQL in production at scale, including sharding, partitioning or large migrations
Experience improving or redesigning legacy parts of a system that is serving live traffic
Go and gRPC in production at high request rates
Messaging, feeds or other real-time systems, or message queues such as RabbitMQ or Kafka
Distributed storage internals, such as Raft or RocksDB
You have cut infrastructure cost at a company where margins mattered
Experience running workloads on GCP or AWS

Benefits

Generous compensation
Stock options
28 days paid time off plus Dutch public holidays
Pension plan with a company contribution
NS Business Card or a company bike, covered by Stream
EUR 500 per year for personal development
Catered lunches in the office
MacBook Pro
Up to EUR 60 a month toward a gym or sports club membership of your choice
Relocation support if you move to Amsterdam, including visa sponsorship as a recognised IND sponsor
Local benefits for Toronto, Skopje and remote EU depending on country of employment

About the company

Stream powers real-time Chat, Video, Activity Feeds, and AI Moderation for more than 1 billion end users across 4,000+ apps. It is a Series B company with a team of 140+ people.