Staff Software Engineer (backend)

Tines is a company that powers important workflows through its intelligent workflow platform, utilizing AI and automation. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead technical direction and improve backend systems, ensuring high-quality code and mentoring other engineers in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical direction for some of Tines’ most critical systems
• Make valuable changes in our codebase in your first week, and see them live in production minutes after merging them
• Shape how jobs and code are executed at the very heart of our application, to help us power the world’s most important workflows
• Write and review high-quality, well-tested code to ensure that we’re creating a stable product for our customers, and a stress-free codebase for ourselves
• Identify areas for improvement, both in our codebase and in how we work, and share the responsibility of making our team better
• Own the problems you’re solving - and the software you write to solve them - all the way to production and beyond, responding to customer feedback to improve those solutions
• Use your knowledge to mentor other engineers in our team, providing support and guidance to help them grow their abilities
• Build robust, high-availability systems that can support massive data throughput requirements
• Improve action throughput to meet our growing customers’ scale
• Create internal and customer-facing controls that allow Tines and our customers to configure job prioritization levels, ensuring the most critical workflows are executed in a timely manner
• Build features that allow customers to execute code in our product
• Ensure customers’ jobs are executed in a balanced and fair manner, particularly on multitenant stacks
• Write a blog post to share something interesting we learned with the community

Requirements:

• Typically 10+ years as a professional software engineer
• Proven track record of success as a staff software engineer
• Linux systems expertise in namespaces, file descriptors, Unix sockets, mounts, networking, and process isolation
• Experience with container runtimes, orchestration, or code execution platforms
• Filesystem and storage experience, including POSIX behavior, content-addressed storage, and crash recovery
• Experience in building and owning low-level system primitives in Rust or Go
• Strong debugging skills: able to build focused reproducers for complex kernel, runtime, and storage issues, and use logs, traces, metrics, and tests to isolate root cause
• Your abilities matter, not your education or exactly where you've worked
• This role is broad, not specialized
• We're focused on the most important problems, not the most interesting ones
• Engineer productivity is hugely important to us
• We work healthily and sustainably
• Your contributions will be obvious
• We're building an inclusive, supportive team