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Staff Engineer

Svix
New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 4/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/16/2025

Mission

We are looking for a top performing staff engineer with a focus on the backend to help us continue scaling the team and the product. You will get to solve interesting problems and technical challenges. We move fast, and speed of execution is one of our core values. We are obsessed with providing a great developer experience, and you will be expected to share this obsession.

If you are a top performer who wants to do the best job of their life surrounded by others doing the same, this is the place for you.

Outcomes

  • Be a strong individual contributor, deploying high quality production code in a fast-paced environment.
  • Build new features while providing a great developer experience for our customers.
  • Help the team scale the product while ensuring stability and high availability.
  • Help the team with technical challenges and successful completion of tasks.
  • Help organize the team, planning sprints, delegating tasks, and organizing goals, while maintaining a high team velocity as the team increases in size.

Competencies

  • Be a top performing and passionate engineer looking to do great work.
  • Experience building and designing high scale and high availability systems, including a deep understanding of infrastructure, databases, and common backend patterns.
  • Excellent technical, architectural (system design), diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
  • Have a great taste in software and API design, with great instincts for what great looks like.
  • Be a clear communicator that is great to work with.
  • Have strong leadership and organizational abilities.
  • Be obsessed with shipping and high engineering velocity, while maintaining high stability.
  • Having previously worked as a staff engineer, tech lead, or a similar role.
  • Experience with the technologies we use in the backend and infrastructure such as : Rust, Postgres, Redis, and Terraform.
  • Bonus :
  • Rust experience (if lacking, an ability to quickly ramp up is required)

  • Frontend experience
  • Compensation

    Base Salary Range : $190,000 - $210,000

  • These figures represent the range for candidates based in NYC, where we are headquartered. Salary will differ based on geographic location and is also based on skills, experience, etc.
  • Equity : We offer generous equity packages at Svix. As an owner, our success is your success.

    Benefits (US) : Health insurance (including vision and dental), long-term and short-term disability insurance, 401(k) retirement account, paid sick time and paid personal time off.

    General guidelines

  • We like candidates with varied backgrounds - don't be shy, apply!
  • Hackers / OSS devs welcome, even without extensive work history. Checkout our OSS repo on Github.
  • Please include a few words on why you'd like to work at Svix.
  • All roles are full-time - no students or part-time.
  • Applicable timezones : UTC-8 to UTC 3.
  • Salary : $190,000 - $210,000

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