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Senior Backend Engineer
@Hive.co
[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Hive.co
Mar 29, 2025 - Hive.co is hiring a remote Senior Backend Engineer. 💸 Salary: meaningful salary and equity based on impact. 📍Location: Canada.
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Role Description
As a Senior Backend Engineer for the Reliability Team at Hive, you'll be part of a team responsible for the performance, reliability, and maintainability of our systems. This role bridges infrastructure, operations, and application engineering to ensure our services are scalable, performant, secure, and cost-effective as we tackle increasingly complex technical challenges.
- Champion system observability improvements through implementation, maintenance, process refinement, and automation for business-critical services
- Drive SLO adoption and improvement to ensure excellent customer satisfaction across key value streams
- Enhance application performance at every level, from infrastructure foundations to runtime environments
- Tackle and resolve complex technical challenges across the entire stack
- Partner with development teams to design and implement scalable, reliable solutions
- Lead security and compliance initiatives as integral components of our engineering practice
- Craft and refine developer tools that boost team productivity and efficiency
- Develop and implement strategies to optimize cloud infrastructure costs
- Collaborate with DevOps to maintain and enhance deployment pipelines in our cloud environments
- Contribute to incident management by defining meaningful metrics, executing against targets, and improving response times and overall system stability
Qualifications
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years focused on reliability, infrastructure, or platform engineering
- 3+ years experience with AWS and proven ability to build effective monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions
- Track record of implementing, maintaining, and improving SLOs and uptime KPIs for critical services
- Expert knowledge of Linux, Docker, and distributed systems principles with their real-world applications
- Solid programming skills in both application and infrastructure languages (Python, Go, etc.)
- Strong grasp of security best practices and a data-driven approach to enhancing stability and availability
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and explain complex technical concepts clearly
Requirements
- Proven experience scaling complex AWS environments and optimizing performance across the full technology stack during periods of significant growth
- Experience creating developer platforms and CI/CD pipelines that enhance team productivity
- Skillful approach to cloud cost optimization and resource management
- Experience in establishing and improving incident management processes
Benefits
- Meaningful salary and equity. You're rewarded based on impact
- Work fully remote from the comfort of your home in Canada
- Opportunity to shape reliability practices at a rapidly scaling company
- Collaborative team of experienced engineers passionate about building reliable systems
- Flexible work hours with minimal meetings
- Health & Dental coverage
- Open vacation/PTO policy so you can be happy and healthy!
- Generous parental leave top-up with a flexible return-to-work plan
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Software Development
Software Development
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Salary
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meaningful salary and equity based on impact
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Remote
Location
Canada
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 29, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: Canada |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
