First Resonance
Staff Software Engineer
Los Angeles · Staff+
Work authorization requiredDetected 21 days ago
PythonGoNode.jsDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringData ScienceIncident ResponseOnboardingRoboticsHardware DesignLeadership
About the role
- We've invested heavily in forward-deployed engineers at the customer edge.
- We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer who is an exceptional backend engineer equally comfortable writing production-grade application code and architecting the AWS cloud infrastructure it runs on.
- This is a role for a systems thinker who wants to split their time between scaling our backend codebase and optimizing our cloud footprint.
Responsibilities
- Write and Architect Backend Code: Build, scale, and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs that power the ION Factory OS.
- Bridge Code and Infrastructure: Own the relationship between our application layer and our AWS infrastructure. You'll ensure our cloud architecture perfectly supports our software delivery.
- Drive Reliability and Uptime: Establish and improve reliability practices (SLOs/SLIs, incident response, postmortems, capacity planning) at both the application and infrastructure levels.
- lead optimization initiatives across application code, databases, caching, async processing, and AWS services.
- Build Leverage for the Team: Create scalable primitives (libraries, patterns, CI/CD tooling, paved roads) that enable product teams to ship code faster with less risk.
- lead by example through hands-on delivery.
- Lead at least one high-impact initiative that materially improves application uptime, database performance, or developer velocity.
- Performance Leadership: Identify systemic bottlenecks; lead optimization initiatives across application code, databases, caching, async processing, and AWS services.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of shipping production-grade backend code and owning infrastructure.
- Leadership: Track record of leading large technical initiatives across teams or across a complex codebase.
Nice to have
- Depth in one or more of: SRE/reliability engineering, database scalability, multi-tenant architectures, or zero-downtime data migrations.
- Team outings, group lunches, open office, happy hours.
- Paid holidays, sick days.
- First Resonance participates in E-Verify.
Skills
- Ship high-quality backend code to production while gaining a deep understanding of our current AWS infrastructure.
- Experience in or affinity for manufacturing, industrial software, or hard-tech customer environments.
Benefits
- Health Insurance; medical, vision, dental, & life insurance.
- Paid Parental Leave.
- Employee Stock Option Plan.
- Flexible Friday and PTO.
Company info
- Create scalable primitives (libraries, patterns, CI/CD tooling, paved roads) that enable product teams to ship code faster with less risk.
- Own Architecture at Scale: Evaluate and evolve our backend and cloud architecture to support massive growth in customers, data volume, and product surface area.
- As part of our onboarding process, a new hire's Form I-9 information will be shared with the federal government to confirm they are authorized to work in the U.S.
- We are a group of software, hardware, and manufacturing engineers that are bringing the best of modern UX and data science to an industry that has been overly rigid in its innovation.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce.
Visa & Work Authorization
- As part of our onboarding process, a new hire's Form I-9 information will be shared with the federal government to confirm they are authorized to work in the U.S.
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