Sphere
Senior Backend Engineer (Infrastructure)
San Francisco HQ · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 152 days ago
PythonDjangoRailsPostgreSQLRedisAWSGCPAzureKubernetesTerraformTemporal
About the role
- Sphere is using AI to codify the world's international trade law.
- Why this is a massive opportunity: 🌍 Massive TAM: Every business around the world needs this.
- You'll be getting very familiar with it! - Strong experience in Python.
Responsibilities
- Influence and implement the next generation of Sphere's database, real-time queue, and container orchestration infrastructure
- Build abstractions within Terraform to simplify the architecture and increase velocity and ownership
- We've spent the last 2 years building local rails into 100+ tax authorities across the world to properly automate compliance processes (no other vendor has done this)
Requirements
- Experience managing k8s clusters in AWS/GCP/Azure at scale
- Extensive experience shipping high-quality architectures for mission critical systems (focus on high availability, high load, low latency)
- Experience with Postgres at scale
Nice to have
- Experience working with large volumes of transaction data.
- You'll be getting very familiar with it!
- Strong experience in Python.
- Our core application backend and data pipeline services are built with Python and Django
- Passionate about developer experience
- Very strong attention to detail.
- When you work with numbers this is a non-negotiable - it's not enough to be 99% right.
- The Dog: Grit > pedigree.
Company info
- Work directly with customers like Eleven Labs, Replit, Windsurf, and partners like Stripe, Chargebee, on their latency and availability requirements.
- We're building the world's first AI-native tax engine (which will be the foundation for a broader cross border compliance platform; think Deel for revenue-based compliance)
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