Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Systems

Noise exists because culture should be shaped by the people who care about it. We're building a platform where curators and communities surface and value the trends becoming relevant around the world. We're a team of 10 based in SoHo, New York. We look for people with great taste who can ship code, design or convey user needs into delightful products. DUTIES - Architect and build backend services and APIs able to handle large-scale traffic and real-time data. - Design distributed systems: microservices, message queues, caching, orchestration, Kubernetes & cloud infrastructure. - Ensure system scale, performance, reliability, security, and observability (monitoring, logging, alerting). - Collaborate across product, front-end, and infrastructure teams to deliver end-to-end solutions. - Define and drive best practices for code quality, deployment, infrastructure, and system operations. REQUIREMENTS - 3 years of experience as a Software Engineer or similar position in backend (or full-stack) development. - Experience with - Reactive Architecture principles (CQRS, event sourcing); - backend services in Rust; - streaming data pipelines in Scala; - batch data processing in Python; - API microservices in Typescript; - DDL and DML SQL statements; - analytical SQL queries (window functions, deduplication, CTE, JSON); - push-based CDC in Postgres (logical replication); - queries for sub-millisecond latency over multi-million row Postgres table; - Postgres internals (WAL, TOAST, EXPLAIN); - infrastructure as code using Terraform; - deployments using Kubernetes; - Postgres installations on AWS RDS; - developer environments using Nix; - Tokio, Axum, SQLx; - Flink, Kafka; - Pandas, Numpy, Scipy; - Node.js, REST, gRPC; - asynchronous programming (multiprocessing, multithreading, green threads); - synchronization primitives (channels, mutexes, semaphores); - BDD, TDD, unit, integration testing, data QA; - Postgres dialect of SQL; - deploying to AWS; - writing Nixpkgs modules. Minimu