yeet
Backend Engineer
Chicago
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 297 days ago
PythonBackend DevelopmentPostgreSQLRedisTerraformLinuxgRPCKafkaRabbitMQWebSocketsData Engineering
About the role
- We're looking for a Backend Engineer to help us scale the systems behind yeet's real-time observability platform.
- Our backend is composed primarily of Python micro services, but this isn't just another "wrap an API around Postgres" role.
- You'll be working on streaming systems, high-throughput data ingestion, and async task pipelines that need to move fast, replicate elastically, and stay reliable under load.
Responsibilities
- You understand how to design for throughput, reliability, and fault tolerance in distributed systems.
Requirements
- You enjoy solving problems that don't fit neatly into a CRUD API and like thinking about performance trade-offs.
- Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgres, or DuckDB in production environments.
- Familiarity with async frameworks like asyncio, celery, for task queues and background jobs.
- Experience with terraform and comfort contributing to infrastructure design.
Skills
- yeet is built by a tight-knit group of systems, observability, and kernel nerds who refuse to accept "mystery outages" as normal.
This listing is sourced directly from yeet's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.