[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Muck Rack
Mar 26, 2025 - Muck Rack is hiring a remote Senior Software Engineer. đź’¸ Salary: $140,000 - $170,000. đź“ŤLocation: USA, Canada.
Role Description
We’re looking for a collaborative and self-motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our growing team and make a big impact.
As a senior software engineer on the Platform team, you’ll work closely with engineers on various teams to help further the core elements of our application stack. You’ll contribute to technical projects that help all feature teams deliver value to our customers.
Our tech stack uses Python, Django, Kafka, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Vue, and Webpack. Our technology team is focused on scale, quality, delivery, and thoughtful customer experience. We ship frequently without sacrificing work/life balance.
- Design, build, and maintain core components that are used across multiple feature teams that ultimately drive customer features and value
- Help curate frameworks, tooling, and best practices to enhance developer productivity and improve system reliability
- Help champion new technology by evaluating and integrating emerging technologies that benefit the broader engineering organization
- Advocate for and contribute to automation and observability to support scalability and maintainability
- Collaborate closely with feature teams to understand their pain points and provide solutions that simplify development and deployment processes
- Improve CI/CD pipelines to enhance deployment speed, reliability, and developer experience
- Drive and support engineering best practices, including code quality, security, and performance optimizations
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer
- Strong background in Python and its ecosystem
- Experience with Django or similar web frameworks (FastAPI, Flask, etc.)
- Hands-on experience in designing, building, and maintaining microservices, including monitoring, scaling, and operationalizing them
- Experience working with high-traffic, complex web applications or SaaS platforms, ideally with large data volumes
- Expertise in optimizing databases such as MySQL (or Postgres) and/or Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
- Familiarity with gRPC/protobuf
Requirements
- Experience with Kafka or related streaming technologies (Kinesis, Flink, Beam)
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration
Benefits
- Remote Work, Forever: We’re a fully distributed team and have pledged to remain that way forever. We offer employees a full home office setup, phone & internet reimbursement, and a monthly coworking membership.
- Transparent Compensation: We offer competitive geo-neutral pay in the U.S. and review compensation at least once annually to ensure internal equity and alignment with the external market.
- Health & Wellness: Muck Rack provides comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability and life insurance for employees and their families.
- PTO and Family Benefits: Our team enjoys 4+ weeks of off-the-grid PTO, paid sick/mental health days and 13 paid holidays.
- Personal & Professional Development: We grow talent by creating internal pathways for advancement and promotion.
- Culture of Inclusion: We know that diverse perspectives breed innovation and help us better serve our customers.
- Customer-First: Founder-controlled means we have the freedom to be nimble, highly collaborative and innovative.
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Salary
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$140,000 - $170,000
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USA, Canada
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Job Type
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Posted
Mar 26, 2025
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| đź“Ť | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA, Canada |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
