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Global

  • Design, build, and operate backend services supporting our WebRTC and Voice SDK products.
  • Take ownership of backend systems including authentication, push notifications, and diagnostic logging.
  • Improve reliability, scalability, and observability of customer-facing services.

Elixir Kubernetes Distributed Systems Backend Engineering Observability

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India

  • Design, build, and operate production services powering real-time voice and communication experiences.
  • Take end-to-end ownership of backend services including authentication, routing, push notifications, and diagnostics.
  • Collaborate with mobile, JavaScript, and infrastructure teams to improve reliability, scalability, and observability.

The company builds real-time communication infrastructure for voice and video applications. It is a technology-focused organization with a collaborative engineering culture.

Poland

  • Design and develop highly performant backend services for real-time data processing and web APIs.
  • Define and own reliability objectives and error budgets for core API services.
  • Build observability through metrics, logging, tracing, and dashboards, and participate in on-call rotation.

The company provides technology that protects businesses and users from online fraud. It is a fully remote, globally distributed organization.

$163,000–$263,670/yr
US

  • Design, build, and operate the distributed systems that deliver feature-flag configuration to LaunchDarkly SDKs.
  • Own and improve the reliability, latency, and scalability of our streaming and polling infrastructure.
  • Debug and resolve complex production issues while sharing the team's on-call rotation.

LaunchDarkly builds a feature management platform that enables safe and gradual software releases. The company is growing and fosters a humble, open, collaborative culture.

$140,000–$225,000/yr
US Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Build and maintain backend services for our LLM gateway, including routing, rate limiting, and observability.
  • Contribute to sandboxing and isolation infrastructure for safe agent-generated code execution.
  • Write high-performance backend code in Go, Rust, or async Python, supporting Kubernetes-based platform services.

AZX accelerates positive impact in critical industries through AI transformation. Founded in 2024 and profitable from the start, we work with category leaders in real estate, energy, logistics, and utilities.

$116,960–$171,900/yr
US

  • Ship reliable features at scale that deliver the most value to customers by partnering with engineering and product.
  • Perform thorough and thoughtful code reviews to maintain a high standard of code quality.
  • Identify key system metrics and ensure adequate monitoring coverage for new and existing data storage and analytical services.

Twilio powers real-time business communications and data solutions that help companies and developers worldwide build better applications and customer experiences. They employ thousands of Twilions worldwide and foster a remote-first, antiracist culture that supports diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed backend systems powering platform and product capabilities.
  • Own backend services end-to-end, from architecture to monitoring, while collaborating with product and engineering peers.
  • Build and evolve Web3 platform backend components, including protocol integrations and blockchain network support.

Zerion builds backend systems for Web3 infrastructure, powering API and wallet products trusted by 50+ top crypto brands. They have a fully remote team with strong ownership and high code quality, processing over 3.1B requests and supporting 1.7M+ active funded wallets.

Global

  • Evolving Supabase Edge Runtime, an open-source Rust-based host that runs Deno isolate and enforces per-request memory and CPU limits.
  • Implementing monitoring, alerting, and OpenTelemetry tracing to drive latency and reliability improvements.
  • Expanding functions for more use cases like AI inference, MCP servers, and improving developer experience with Supabase CLI.

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, providing a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. With a globally distributed team of ~400 members across 60+ countries, they are open-source-first and move fast, building in public.

Canada

  • Build and operate backend platform services for APIs, Kafka-based event routing, workflow execution, and secrets management.
  • Design event-driven workflows and durable executions using technologies such as Kafka and Temporal.
  • Own production reliability, observability, and security across multi-tenant, multi-cloud environments.

This partner company builds core platform services for workflow execution, identity, event routing, secrets management, and audit infrastructure. It is a high-growth, engineering-led organization focused on innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

US UK Ireland Poland Germany Australia

  • Design and implement a scalable observability platform for Whatnot's growing infrastructure.
  • Work with core infrastructure, platform, and developer tools teams to redesign data collection to visualization.
  • Utilize AI agents and open standards to ensure visibility into software stack performance and reliability.

Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe, enabling sellers to build businesses across hundreds of categories. They are a remote co-located team anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia, and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes.

US

  • Design and build scalable backend services and APIs for LaunchDarkly's Experimentation product.
  • Own backend components from discovery through monitoring and continuous improvement.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate customer needs into reliable technical solutions.

LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that helps developers release software faster and safer. The company fosters a collaborative, respectful, and inclusive culture with a focus on team empowerment.

US

  • You'll contribute to infrastructure scaling to infinitely many apps, improving performance and reliability across backend services.
  • You'll support observability efforts, help implement SLOs, and build foundational services for next-generation cloud infrastructure.
  • You'll participate in triage and on-call processes to diagnose issues and implement changes to prevent recurrence.

Bubble is an AI visual development platform that empowers anyone to create software without code, from first-time entrepreneurs to enterprise teams. With over 6 million users in more than 100 countries and a mission to break down barriers to entrepreneurship, the company fosters a collaborative and inclusive culture focused on empowering builders worldwide.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Architect and implement backend services in Go, designing APIs and distributed systems that scale reliably.
  • Ensure performance, resilience, and fault tolerance in production environments.
  • Collaborate with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams to deliver features from concept to launch.

Aries.com is the first open-source brokerage for active traders, and Finance.dev provides developer infrastructure for trading products. They are a dynamic team that values urgency, initiative, and engineering excellence, operating with a hybrid company model hiring everywhere.

US

  • Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable software applications using Elixir and Python.
  • Take ownership of projects from concept through deployment and ongoing support.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering best practices and code quality.

Avandra Imaging unlocks clinical data to overcome medical challenges, bringing hope and breakthroughs that transform patient lives. With a national footprint of over 5,000 customer integrations and a market share of approximately 70%, they are building a values-driven culture focused on innovation and collaboration.

$152,800–$259,200/yr
Americas Unlimited PTO

  • Lead cross-cutting initiatives and drive modular backend architecture to improve scalability and developer velocity.
  • Set standards for APIs, testing, security, and operability while mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction.
  • Own production systems, participate in on-call, and lead AI-assisted engineering workflows with quality and safety guardrails.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations increase developer productivity and improve operational efficiency. With over 50 million users and trust from more than 50% of the Fortune 100, GitLab fosters a high-performance culture driven by values, continuous knowledge exchange, and AI integration.