Thumbtack is looking to solve the problem of scaling and reliability of its services, as well as enabling other product teams with reusable libraries, frameworks, and patterns to accelerate their development while maintaining consistency and sustainability across Thumbtack’s Go-based ecosystem.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend or systems engineering roles, with exposure to high-scale production environments.
- Proficiency in a backend language such as but not limited to Go, Python, or PHP to build highly available APIs and distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of AWS and Linux.
- Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting services that handle critical user-facing traffic.
- Solid understanding of databases, caching, and messaging systems (e.g., DynamoDB, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, or equivalents).
- Proven ability to collaborate across teams, balancing product velocity with long-term service health.
- Experience working on platforms that create leveraged software for the entire engineering organization to use and build on top of.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain resilient backend services that provide core application capabilities (e.g., identity, media, delivery/communication).
- Develop and maintain reusable libraries and frameworks for logging, monitoring, storage access, and service-to-service communication.
- Partner with product and platform teams to design APIs and distributed systems patterns that are reliable, efficient, and easy to integrate.
- Anticipate scaling challenges through capacity planning and proactive engineering.
- Participate in the team’s on-call rotation, ensuring services meet defined SLAs and addressing production issues.
Other
- Calibrated job level, qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.
- 5+ years of experience in backend or systems engineering roles.
- Ability to collaborate across teams.
- Must be a California resident to review information regarding your rights under California privacy laws.
- Must contact recruitingops@thumbtack.com for reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process.
