Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Company: Parabola
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: February 12, 2025

Job Description:

About Us:Parabola is the spreadsheet alternative where you combine the data running throughout your company and create automated processes. Pull in data from any source you can imagine-from scattered spreadsheets and tools, to emails and PDFs-and build logic that replicates the manual work you do every day.Use our canvas to combine and transform your data, and surface the results to the right people at the right time so you can do more with the data you rely on. In the process, you'll codify the steps for every workflow you manage so they become repeatable, shareable, and usable for the whole team.Create solutions for the problems you've always wanted to solve, and make your work more shareable and impactful along the way.Parabola is proud to serve companies like Flexport, Sonos, Uber Freight, Brooklinen, and Chubbies and is backed by OpenView Partners, Matrix Partners, Thrive Capital and more.About the role:As a Senior Backend Software Engineer on our rapidly growing team, you'll help build our core platform features, reinforce and evolve our technical foundation, and work with a unique flow-based calculation engine that processes thousands of workflows running millions of logical steps.What you'll be doing:

• Working on our core orchestration logic that determines how to efficiently run tens of thousands of workflows at the same time - we recently rebuilt our orchestrator on top of and we love it!
• Crafting efficient and elegant solutions to process and transform complex datasets using our flow-based calculation engine.
• Sharing ownership for tailoring, extending, and monitoring our infrastructure stack.
• Leading major backend engineering projects from ideation to implementation, deployment, documentation, and ongoing iteration.
• Optimizing our services for scalability, stability, and observability as our customer base grows and our product becomes more sophisticated.
• Collaborating with a small-but-mighty group of engineers with a wide array of backgrounds and areas of expertise.
• Helping our team define processes and practices that will serve us for years of growth and success.What (we think) you'll need to do it:
  • 5+ years of Backend Engineering experience - backgrounds in infrastructure, platform, or reliability teams are all welcome.
  • A proven record of building efficient, performant, and easy to extend systems.
  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and how they interact with backend services.
  • Experience with Linux systems and Docker containers.
  • You're not afraid to ask for help, and you're happy to give it, too.
  • You care about the craft of engineering, and you're dedicated to making sure your work is stable, secure, and maintainable.
  • You're an enthusiastic communicator and you like working with a team that provides both mutual support and thoughtful critique.
  • You're excited to join a hybrid team and work out of our NYC or SF office -3 days a week.Nice to haves:
    • Experience with .
    • Experience building AI platforms, or the tooling and systems behind AI products.
    • Experience implementing and managing AWS infrastructure from the ground up and the ability to continuously evolve the stack to improve efficiency, security, and reliability.
    • Familiarity with Kubernetes/Helm (we use Amazon EKS).
    • Experience implementing and deploying infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) tools to manage production cloud environments (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
    • Experience managing CI/CD pipeline for multiple environments.
    • Experience building cloud storage or data modeling products.
    • Proficiency managing developer experience (e.g. code coverage tooling, static analysis tooling, pull request merge queues).
    • Experience working at early stage startups.Salary Range:$160,000 - $195,000This salary range represents the minimum and maximum for this role based in San Francisco and New York. The salary given for this position is dependent on multiple factors, including years of experience, interview performance and anticipated responsibilities of the role. Our base salary is one component of Parabola's competitive total package, which also includes equity and premium health and wellness benefits.
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Keywords: Parabola, San Francisco , Senior Software Engineer, Backend, IT / Software / Systems , San Francisco, California