Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - Content Lake DX

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: (Salary not provided in the description)

Sanity.io is a content operating system that replaces rigid legacy CMS’ so forward-leaning companies like PUMA, Spotify, Figma, Riot Games, and Skims can create standout digital experiences for their customers. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Content Lake DX team, you’ll be responsible for building highly scalable, performant distributed systems that provide our core content storage and querying capabilities and serve millions of requests a minute. Some of the things you’ll be focusing on are intelligent caching, lightning-fast query performance, and supercharging the developer experience we offer through contributing to our open-source query language GROQ.

Requirements

• Based in North America (East Coast/ET) or Europe
• Proven track record of building and running distributed applications at scale, preferably at a product/SaaS company
• Passion for cutting-edge technology, including staying up-to-date on the latest developments and applying them to your work.
• Expert in any backend language (Golang, Typescript / Node.js required)
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate technical designs and thinking verbally and in writing
• Compassionate, friendly human being that cares about and respects the people you work with

Responsibilities

• Drive the design and development of complex technical solutions
• Work on ambiguous problems requiring you to rapidly innovate on novel solutions
• Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence through peer-reviewing others’ work, testing code and championing our coding standards
• Coach teammates and provide technical mentorship to level up the whole team
• Retrospect and influence how our team works recommending product or process improvements
• Lead critical incidents responses and fix our most complex defects

Application Instructions

• Apply anyway! (No specific application instructions are provided in the description)

Company Information

• About Sanity.io: Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems. One of our big differentiators is treating content as data, so it can be stored in a single source of truth, but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort. Forward-thinking companies choose Sanity because they can create tailored content authoring experiences, customized workflows, and content models that reflect their business.
• Backed by: Netlify, Vercel, the founders of Twitter and Medium, Heroku’s ex-CEO, and leading VCs like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, and Lead Edge Capital.