Onebrief is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help design, build, and operate the core systems of their AI-powered workflow software for military staffs, aiming to make the staff faster, smarter, and more efficient.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend software development
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Node.js, Python, Java, Go, etc.)
- Deep understanding of designing and building scalable APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
- Strong experience with relational and/or non-relational databases, data modeling, and query optimization
- Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and maintain distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of application performance tuning, reliability, and security best practices
- Hands-on experience with containerization and cloud infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure)
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services that power mission critical platform functions
- Evolve and optimize the underlying data model to improve scalability, performance, and reusability
- Work across the stack — from APIs and databases to deployment and observability
- Diagnose and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability issues in production
- Collaborate on architecture and operational strategy for high-availability systems
- Implement and refine monitoring, alerting, and metrics collection
- Balance long-term engineering quality with pragmatic delivery
Other
- Remote work, flex time, and unlimited PTO
- Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 401k
- Parental leave
- Proven ability to collaborate across functions (product, design, frontend, DevOps) to deliver end-to-end solutions
