Copy of Staff Engineer – Backend Engineering

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<div class="content-intro"><div> </div> <div><br></div></div><p> <br><strong>Who We Are:</strong><br>Aviatrix® is pioneering the Cloud Native Security Fabric — the architecture the Containment Era requires. The Cloud Native Security Fabric governs every workload communication path across every cloud, every VPC, every Kubernetes cluster, and every serverless function, from a single policy plane. One rule. Universal propagation. Enforced at the workload, not at a chokepoint. Trusted by more than 500 of the world's leading enterprises. For more information, visit <a href="http://aviatrix.ai" target="_blank">aviatrix.ai</a>. </p> <p><strong>About the Role - Staff Engineer – Backend Engineering</strong></p> <p>Aviatrix Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) delivers the intelligence, network, and security services of Aviatrix's multi-cloud platform as a managed offering, built on modern microservices architecture. We're seeking a Staff Engineer for our SaaS Platform team to bring technical depth to backend engineering, contribute to distributed microservices and cloud-native infrastructure design on AWS, mentor junior engineers, and raise the bar on reliability, performance, and security.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <p><strong>Architecture & Technical Contribution</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own design and delivery of backend platform features, breaking down complex projects into scoped tasks</li> <li>Contribute to architecture discussions on scalability, fault tolerance, multi-tenancy, and operational simplicity</li> <li>Collaborate on core platform services using AWS-managed services (Aurora, MSK/Kafka, ClickHouse)</li> <li>Evaluate trade-offs on technology choices, system boundaries, and API contracts; write clear design docs</li> </ul> <p><strong>Backend Engineering Excellence</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design high-performance microservices using gRPC, REST, and event-driven patterns (Golang preferred)</li> <li>Reinforce best practices for observability, resiliency, and SLO-driven operations</li> <li>Contribute to supportability (runbooks, diagnostics) and apply security best practices across service boundaries</li> <li>Participate in design reviews, capacity planning, and incident retrospectives</li> </ul> <p><strong>Mentorship & Collaboration</strong></p> <ul> <li>Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and 1-on-1s</li> <li>Collaborate with Product Management; participate in on-call and incident RCA; support recruiting as needed</li> <li> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Requirements</strong></p> <p><strong>Experience & Education</strong></p> <ul> <li>7+ years software engineering experience, with some mentoring experience</li> <li>BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)</li> <li>Experience on a SaaS/PaaS product with high-availability, multi-tenancy exposure; comfortable with ambiguity</li> </ul> <p><strong>Backend & Microservices</strong></p> <ul> <li>Strong Golang preferred; production-grade gRPC microservices experience a plus</li> <li>Solid grasp of distributed systems (consistency, fault tolerance, service discovery, circuit breaking, back-pressure)</li> <li>Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, OS, and systems programming</li> <li>API design/versioning experience (REST and gRPC), backward compatibility</li> </ul> <p><strong>SaaS Platform & AWS Managed Services</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience with multi-tenancy and high-availability design patterns</li> <li>Familiarity with AWS-managed services (Aurora, MSK/Kafka, ClickHouse); event-driven systems (SQS, SNS) a plus</li> </ul> <p><strong>Production Deployment & Supportability</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience deploying/operating production services, release management, and operational readiness</li> <li>Understanding of observability, alerting, diagnostics, and runbooks; incident response and RCA experience</li> </ul> <p><strong>AWS & Cloud Infrastructure</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience with AWS as primary cloud platform; familiarity with Kubernetes (EKS)</li> <li>Familiarity with IaC (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation) and CI/CD for cloud-native services</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to Have</strong></p> <ul> <li>Monitoring/logging/tracing or platform-management tooling experience</li> <li>Additional AWS services (RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch, Lambda); multi-cloud (Azure, GCP) exposure</li> <li>Network security, cloud networking, or SASE/SD-WAN background; open-source contributions or technical writing</li> </ul> <p><strong>Interpersonal & Communication</strong></p> <ul> <li>Strong written/verbal communication; effective in collaborative, distributed teams; skilled at mentoring and building consensus</li> </ul> <p> </p> <h3><span class="TextRun SCXW7793722 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW7793722 BCX0">Watch our culture…