Backend Engineer (API Platform Team)

Backend Engineer (API Platform team)

Preferred time zones: GMT - GMT+4

You Will:

• Own the API as a product: design versioning, throttling, and customer‑level usage metrics; ensure backward‑compatibility for clients.
• Expand reliability: deliver end‑to‑end tracing, structured logs, rich metrics, and proactive error tracking as self‑service building blocks for every feature team.
• Drive scalability initiatives: guide performance‑ and capacity‑driven architecture work so our platform stays fast, cost‑efficient, and resilient as traffic grows 10x.
• Collaborate: mentor teammates, facilitate architecture reviews, and co-shape the engineering roadmap.

We're Looking For Someone Who Has:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong foundation in building scalable systems.
• Proven track record designing and evolving public APIs (REST or gRPC) consumed by external developers or IaC tooling (Terraform, etc.)
• Strong experience building and maintaining production-grade backend systems and APIs, ideally in Go.
• Deep understanding of SRE practices (SLO/SLI budgeting, incident response, post‑mortems), yet able to keep the mindset of a feature‑enabling platform team.
• Experience running services across multiple regions or availability zones.
• Familiarity with our stack: OpenAPI, Grafana, Loki, Sentry, React (nice‑to‑have), Kubernetes.

About Neon

Our Team

• We are a distributed team of 130+ people working from 25+ countries (concentrating around North America and Europe time zones)
• We are a team built on open sources cultural principles (transparency, contribution, accountability, proactivity)
• Team with decades of experience building databases and deep knowledge of Postgres internals. We are deeply technical
• We have experienced Postgres committers and hackers on the team (check Heikki, Anastasia, Matthias profiles)
• We believe in the efficacy of collaborative open source
• We aim for a diversity of thoughts and backgrounds
• We are keen to be a fast-moving flat org and avoid hierarchical structures

Our Investors

Top-tier investors backed up Neon's vision:

• We raised $104+ million in funding from Menlo Ventures, Notable Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Founders Fund.
• Venture vehicles of Snowflake and Databricks invested in Neon.
• Our angel investors are prominent technologists and ecosystem players. More than 20 awesome angels supported Neon, including Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, Mike Ovitz, Ajeet Singh, Guillermo Rauch, Søren Brammer Schmidt, and Wes McKinney.
• Our Board includes Quentin Clark, Glenn Solomon, Joe Morrissey, and Tim Tully.

Our Offer

• You have an opportunity to be an early employee in a fast-scaling ambitious team
• You can work 100% remote: we'll handle all formalities to arrange work from your home
• We grant equity (stock options) to all full-time hires
• We offer a competitive benefits package in line with all tech companies (top-notch equipment, unlimited vacations, paid parental leaves, and much more)
• We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Lisbon, Portugal)

Benefits: ESOP Salary: EUR (Min/Max not specified) Remote Model: Remote