[Hiring] Staff Backend Engineer @Qdrant

Role Description

We are hiring a Staff Backend Engineer with Technical Lead responsibilities who will take ownership of complex backend domains and drive architectural clarity, execution quality, and cross-functional alignment across the Cloud organization.

• Your initial focus will likely involve a high-priority domain such as Billing, Payments, or Usage Metering, but this is not a billing-only role.
• This is a senior individual contributor role with broad architectural influence, strong cross-functional leadership expectations, and a direct impact on the direction of our Cloud platform.
• We prefer candidates based in EMEA for optimal collaboration.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python and Go (both required).
• Deep experience designing and evolving distributed systems.
• Excellent understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and major cloud providers.
• Track record of building or significantly improving complex backend systems.

Requirements

• Own the architecture and technical strategy of one or more high-impact backend domains.
• Drive system design, establish service boundaries, and shape long-term platform evolution.
• Modernise legacy systems and lead migrations toward clean, scalable, maintainable architectures.
• Define engineering standards, architectural guardrails, and review best practices.
• Ensure correctness, reliability, observability, and maintainability across the systems you own.
• Provide technical direction for your domain and act as the main engineering point of contact.
• Collaborate with Product, Finance, Growth, Support, and Platform teams to translate requirements into robust engineering solutions.
• Coordinate execution across cross-functional contributors and ensure high-quality delivery.
• Communicate technical options, trade-offs, and risks clearly to both engineering and non-technical stakeholders.
• Lead design discussions, review significant PRs, and mentor Senior and Mid-level engineers.
• Help shape quarterly Cloud engineering priorities by representing the needs of your domain.
• Proactively identify risks and drive mitigation plans end-to-end.
• Ensure technical execution is predictable, aligned, and sustainable.
• Remove blockers that hinder delivery or compromise system stability.
• Champion observability, operational excellence, and data correctness.
• Guide teams through ambiguity and evolving priorities.
• Bring relevant experience in a critical domain (billing/payments/usage metering strongly preferred).
• Adapt quickly to new problem spaces, shifting priorities, and emerging business demands.
• Help create technical clarity in domains that may still be undefined or require rapid iteration.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation in a fully remote environment.
• A Staff-level role with significant autonomy, influence, and responsibility.
• Opportunity to own and reshape multiple business domains over time.
• Direct input into Cloud engineering strategy and architectural decisions.
• A high-performance engineering culture grounded in pragmatism, clarity, and continuous improvement.
• Work alongside experienced engineers, platform architects, and a strong cross-functional leadership team.