As a Backend Engineer at Nightfall, you'll enable us to deliver our platform reliably, securely, and at a massive scale. You'll help architect low-latency, real-time microservices that process and detect sensitive data at scale.

Responsibilities :

- Building highly available and secure authentication and API services.

- Maintaining and evolving mission-critical internal databases and services.

- Optimising and operating high-volume, auto-scaling streaming data services.

- Instrumenting streaming data services for visibility into utilisation per customer.

- Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services.

Requirements :

- Expertise in one or more systems/high-level programming languages (e. g., Python, Go, Java, C++) and the eagerness to learn more.

- Experience running scalable (thousands of RPS) and reliable (three 9s) systems.

- Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to substantial data volumes or millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring, and reliability.

- Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e. g., MySQL, Cassandra).

- Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them.

- Experience with building and maintaining large-scale and/or real-time complex data processing pipelines using Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, Storm, or Zookeeper.

- 5+ years of experience.