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Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Hybrid

Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.

Hybrid · Amsterdam office

Employer listed it 5 days ago · Added 4 days ago

First listed 5 days ago and still open.

Salary

Not stated

Location

Hybrid · Amsterdam office

Timezone

Not stated

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Lead

What the advert says

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Working hours: Not mentioned in the advert
Where you can work from: This is a full-time role based in our Amsterdam (visa & relocation support possible), Toronto, or Skopje office.
Contract: This is a full-time role based in our Amsterdam (visa & relocation support possible), Toronto, or Skopje office.
Experience asked for: Not mentioned in the advert
Pay: Generous compensation

Remote flexibility

Hybrid

This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around Amsterdam office, Remote (EU), Skopje office, Toronto office, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "Amsterdam office, Remote (EU), Skopje office, Toronto office, Hybrid"
Listing mentions "Hybrid"

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About the role

Staff Software Engineer, Backend

About Stream

Stream powers real-time Chat , Video , Activity Feeds , and AI Moderation for more than 1 billion end users across 4,000+ apps, from Strava and Bumble to eBay and Patreon. Our platform processes billions of API requests per month and supports applications with millions of concurrent users, while delivering highly reliable, low-latency services and a great developer experience.

The role

We’re looking for Staff Software Engineers . You’ll join our Chat or Activity Feeds team and own backend systems that thousands of developers build their products on, from how they’re structured to how they scale.

This is a full-time role based in our Amsterdam (visa & relocation support possible), Toronto, or Skopje office. We are also open to hiring the right person remote from the EU.

About you

You’ve built backend systems at high scale and stayed long enough to live with your own decisions, good and bad. You care about how a system is structured, not only the next feature, and you can explain your trade-offs to the people who’ll live with them. Maybe you led a team for a few years and chose to go back to hands-on work. That’s welcome here: this is an individual contributor role, and you’ll write code and touch databases yourself. Our leads spend about 80% of their time hands-on too. You won’t enjoy it if you want to manage people, or if you’d rather stay away from infrastructure and database work.

We’re also hiring Senior Engineers on these teams. If your experience fits Senior better than Staff, we’ll say so openly and talk it through with you.

You have

Extensive backend engineering experience, including technical leadership on systems in production.

Proficiency in Go, Python, or in another backend language plus the willingness to switch to Go.

Experience building features used by a large number of users, and scaling them as usage grows.

Strong experience with a relational database. We use PostgreSQL, but any relational database counts.

Hands-on experience with Redis or a similar in-memory data store.

Experience building public APIs or SDKs that other developers use.

Comfort with infrastructure and database work as part of your normal week, including Kubernetes.

Good written and spoken English. It’s our working language.

Bonus points

PostgreSQL in production at scale, including sharding, partitioning or large migrations.

Experience improving or redesigning legacy parts of a system that’s serving live traffic.

Go and gRPC in production at high request rates.

Messaging, feeds or other real-time systems, or message queues such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.

Distributed storage internals, such as Raft or RocksDB.

Requirements

·We’re also hiring Senior Engineers on these teams. If your experience fits Senior better than Staff, we’ll say so openly and talk it through with you.
·Extensive backend engineering experience, including technical leadership on systems in production.
·Proficiency in Go, Python, or in another backend language plus the willingness to switch to Go.
·Experience building features used by a large number of users, and scaling them as usage grows.
·Strong experience with a relational database. We use PostgreSQL, but any relational database counts.

Benefits

·Generous compensation
·Amsterdam office benefits:
·28 days paid time off plus Dutch public holidays.
·Pension plan with a company contribution.
·NS Business Card or a company bike, covered by Stream.

How to apply

1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
2Tailor your CV to the role at Stream, mentioning your remote working experience.
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