Remote Senior Software Engineer/ Lead Software Engineer - Backend SDK

Description:

• Skyflow is a data privacy vault company that simplifies how companies isolate, protect, and govern sensitive data.
• The company supports a diverse customer base across various verticals including fintech, retail, travel, and healthtech.
• As a Backend Software Engineer, you will develop a state-of-the-art SaaS solution for enterprises to govern and protect sensitive data.
• You will contribute to performance engineering efforts to ensure low-latency and high-throughput transactions at scale.
• The role involves enforcing best practices in software quality, security, testing, and documentation.
• Ideal candidates are those who have experience engineering solutions for platforms like Stripe, Twilio, Slack, Zendesk, Snowflake, or MongoDB.

Requirements:

• You must have 5+ years of experience building SDKs, libraries, or developer tools.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Go (preferred), Java, C, C++, or Python is required.
• Experience in performance engineering, specifically in developing high-throughput, low-latency systems is necessary.
• You should have experience designing SDKs that wrap RESTful or gRPC APIs.
• Familiarity with OpenAPI / Swagger specs for auto-generating SDKs or improving maintainability is essential.
• Experience with API gateway platforms and observability tools is required.
• A deep understanding of algorithms, data structures, scalability, and distributed systems is necessary.
• Knowledge in privacy, authorization/authentication engineering is a significant plus.
• Experience with continuous integration, writing testable code, and test-driven development is required.
• Understanding of distributed systems and multi-threading/concurrency concepts is necessary.
• A proven track record of delivering cloud-native distributed SaaS platforms at scale is essential.
• You should possess traits such as being a fast learner, adaptable to change, and a strong believer in being hands-on.
• Understanding of infrastructure and cloud knowledge is a huge bonus.

Benefits:

• You will receive a work from home expense allowance.
• The position offers excellent health insurance options.
• Very generous paid time off (PTO) is provided.
• Flexible working hours are available.
• You will receive generous equity as part of your compensation package.