Staff Backend Engineer - Application Core Services, Stacks

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Staff Backend Engineer - Application Core Services, Stacks in Canada.

This role sits at the heart of large-scale cloud observability systems that power critical customer and internal workflows across a global, remote-first engineering organization. You will work on highly distributed backend systems responsible for provisioning, configuring, and operating customer environments at scale within a complex cloud platform ecosystem. The position focuses on building and maintaining reconciliation and control-plane services that ensure consistency across multi-region infrastructure and product layers. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams spanning product, platform, infrastructure, and operations to deliver reliable and observable systems. This is a high-impact engineering role where your work directly influences customer experience, system stability, and operational efficiency. You will thrive in an environment that values autonomy, technical excellence, and iterative problem-solving on mission-critical services.

• Design, build, and operate distributed backend systems that manage lifecycle workflows for cloud-based customer environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, and consistency across platforms.
• Develop reconciliation and control-plane services that detect and resolve configuration drift across systems such as cloud deployments, product configurations, and internal state stores.
• Collaborate across multiple engineering squads to maintain alignment between provisioning systems, deployment pipelines, and cloud infrastructure operations.
• Improve system observability, reliability, and operational efficiency by enhancing dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and incident response mechanisms.
• Manage rollout processes for configuration updates, plugins, dashboards, and versioned services across multiple regions and environments.
• Participate in on-call rotations, supporting incident response, troubleshooting cross-service failures, and driving post-incident improvements.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, technical design reviews, and long-term simplification of backend systems and workflows.
• Work closely with product, infrastructure, and support teams to translate ambiguous requirements into robust, scalable engineering solutions.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of backend or distributed systems engineering experience, ideally in SaaS or cloud-native environments.
• Strong professional experience with Go (Golang), with ability to work across backend services and platform-level systems.
• Proven experience building or operating large-scale distributed systems (e.g., multi-tenancy, high availability, scalability, data consistency).
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and deployment tooling (e.g., Terraform, Helm, Jsonnet, Argo, or similar).
• Experience working with stateful systems, reconciliation loops, or eventual consistency patterns.
• Strong ability to design, deliver, and iterate on complex systems in an autonomous, remote-first environment.
• Experience collaborating across teams, communicating technical tradeoffs, and driving alignment on system design decisions.
• Experience with incident response processes and writing clear, actionable postmortems.
• Bonus: experience with TypeScript/Node.js, Kubernetes operators, or SaaS provisioning and lifecycle systems.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation package including base salary, performance bonus, and equity (RSUs).
• Fully remote-first work environment with global collaboration opportunities.
• Flexible working model with strong emphasis on autonomy and work-life balance.
• 30 days annual leave, including designated company shutdown days.
• Comprehensive benefits package including health and wellness support.
• Learning and development support, including access to modern engineering tools and AI-assisted development workflows.
• Opportunity to work on large-scale open-source and cloud-native technologies with global impact.
• Inclusive and diverse culture focused on trust, transparency, and engineering excellence.