Staff Engineer – Backend Engineering

About the role

Aviatrix is looking for a Staff Engineer to join its SaaS Platform team, driving backend engineering for a multi‑cloud, microservices‑based platform. You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and ensure reliability, performance, and security of core services.

Key responsibilities

• Own design and delivery of backend platform features, breaking down complex projects into scoped tasks.
• Contribute to architecture discussions on scalability, fault tolerance, multi‑tenancy, and operational simplicity.
• Collaborate on core platform services using AWS‑managed services such as Aurora, MSK/Kafka, and ClickHouse.
• Design high‑performance microservices using gRPC, REST, and event‑driven patterns (Golang preferred).
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and 1‑on‑1s.

Required profile

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with mentoring experience.
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience on a SaaS/PaaS product with high‑availability, multi‑tenancy exposure.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; effective in collaborative, distributed teams.

Required skills

• Golang (preferred) and production‑grade gRPC microservices.
• Distributed systems concepts: consistency, fault tolerance, service discovery, circuit breaking, back‑pressure.
• API design/versioning (REST and gRPC), backward compatibility.
• AWS‑managed services: Aurora, MSK/Kafka, ClickHouse; event‑driven systems (SQS, SNS) a plus.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation) and CI/CD for cloud‑native services.

What we offer

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage (100% employee premiums, 88% dependent premiums in the US).
• 401(k) match and education reimbursement up to $1,000 per year.
• Flexible vacation policy and short/long‑term disability coverage.