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Backend Engineer

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJob$15–35K/yrPosted 2mo agoVerified open 2 days ago
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At a glance

Compensation
$15–35K/yr
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Work Authorization
Not specified

Job overview

The Backend Engineer will maintain sub‑200 ms P95 latency at tenfold scale, implement monitoring and automation to cut production incidents by 80%, and build platform abstractions that enable product teams to ship features three times faster.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

SOA/MicroservicesContent Distribution NetworksServiceEdge ComputingContainersOrchestrationDatabasesDistributed SystemsMicroservicesService MeshDatabase ShardingReplicationDistributed Transaction ManagementCDN OptimizationFastAPIRedisPostgreSQLAWSPythonAsync FrameworkMessage BrokerObservability StackCeleryLLM Calls

Qualifications

2+ Years Distributed Systems Experience

Full job description

Responsibilities:

  • Performance: Maintain less than 200 ms P95 latency for all user-critical operations at 10x the current scale.
  • Incident Reduction: Implement monitoring and automation that reduces production incidents by 80%.
  • Team Enablement: Create platform abstractions that let product teams ship features 3x faster.

Requirements:

  • Must-Have Distributed Systems Experience.
  • 2+ years building and scaling distributed systems handling > 5K concurrent requests in production.
  • Hands-on experience with microservices decomposition from monolithic architectures under live traffic.
  • Production experience with service mesh technologies and container orchestration at scale.
  • Deep understanding of database sharding, replication, and distributed transaction management.
  • Hands-on experience with CDN optimization and edge computing for global/multi-region deployments.
  • Proven ability to optimize systems, achieving less than 100 ms P99 latency for critical user-facing operations.

Tech Stack:

  • What works: FastAPI, Redis, PostgreSQL, AWS, Python 3.11+.
  • What you'll choose: Async framework, message broker, observability stack, celery queues, and LLM calls.

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