Backend Engineer
Chicago, ILFull-timePosted 1y agoStill listed today
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Job overview
yeet is seeking a Backend Engineer to scale the systems behind its real-time observability platform. The backend primarily uses Python microservices and includes streaming systems, high-throughput data ingestion, and asynchronous task pipelines. The role focuses on building reliable, elastic systems that perform under load, with opportunities to contribute to infrastructure design and work on performance trade-offs.
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Full job description
About yeet yeet is built by a tight-knit group of systems, observability, and kernel nerds who refuse to accept “mystery outages” as normal. We’re a small, high-impact team with domain expertise in Linux, eBPF, performance instrumentation, and developer tooling. We move fast, ship often, and take deep ownership. If you enjoy operating close to the metal, building tools that real engineers lean on during 3 AM incident sprints, and solving hard problems with minimal overhead, you’ll feel right at home here.
About the role We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to help us scale the systems behind yeet’s real-time observability platform. Our backend is composed primarily of Python micro services, but this isn’t just another “wrap an API around Postgres” role. You’ll be working on streaming systems, high-throughput data ingestion, and async task pipelines that need to move fast, replicate elastically, and stay reliable under load.
About you
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You have solid experience building backend services in Python, from design to production.
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You’re comfortable with streaming data pipelines, pub/sub, and real-time messaging systems.
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You understand how to design for throughput, reliability, and fault tolerance in distributed systems.
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You can simulate high-load conditions and deliver code that’s testable, measurable, and production-ready.
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You enjoy solving problems that don’t fit neatly into a CRUD API and like thinking about performance trade-offs.
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You’re pragmatic: you know when to optimize and when to ship.
Nice To Haves
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Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgres, or DuckDB in production environments.
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Familiarity with async frameworks like asyncio, celery, for task queues and background jobs.
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Hands-on work with real-time protocols (WebSockets, gRPC streaming, event-driven architectures).
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Prior exposure to observability or monitoring platforms, especially in high-scale environments.
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A track record of building or scaling high-throughput ingestion pipelines for data storage and processing.
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Experience with terraform and comfort contributing to infrastructure design.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,203 open Backend Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Illinois median$132–199K/yr42 salary ranges
- US median$60–70/hr31 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 45 open Backend Engineer jobs in Illinois and 3,203 across the US. 14% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- Backend Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 6 years (2,644 postings).
- Education
- 802 of the 3,203 open Backend Engineer jobs (25%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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