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$115,000–$130,000/yr
Americas

  • Design and maintain data pipelines that ingest and serve data across Techstars systems.
  • Own Kubernetes-based infrastructure, deployment tooling, and cluster health.
  • Maintain PostgreSQL database layer and support Salesforce data flows.

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$199,750–$235,000/yr
US

  • Design, build, and operate event-driven services for real-time pentest data processing.
  • Solve distributed systems challenges at scale, including data migration and batch-to-streaming conversion.
  • Set high standards for operational excellence with SLOs, instrumentation, and on-call.

Horizon3 is a remote cybersecurity company that enables organizations to find, fix, and verify exploitable attack vectors using its NodeZero autonomous pentesting platform. The company is a fusion of former US Special Operations cyber operators and engineers, fostering a culture of respect, collaboration, and ownership.

United States UK Italy Spain Poland

  • Build the distributed, event-driven services that turn Cloud Custodian into a platform, including the GraphQL API and policy execution pipelines.
  • Design and operate systems that ensure correctness and observability while running customer governance workloads at scale across multiple clouds and regions.
  • Lead backend initiatives and mentor other engineers in a technical domain involving event-driven systems and relational databases.

Stacklet helps organizations with large cloud estates optimize cost, improve security, and ensure compliance by automating governance via code. Founded by the creators of CNCF's Cloud Custodian, the company supports some of the world's biggest cloud service consumers.

Poland

  • Set technical strategy for your team on a year-long scale, driving business-impacting projects.
  • Collaborate across teams with product, design, and analytics to ensure technical sustainability.
  • Foster a culture of quality and ownership through code review standards and technical advocacy.

Affirm is a financial technology company that offers buy now, pay later services, aiming to make credit more honest and friendly. It is a large public company with a global team and a culture focused on innovation, inclusion, and employee well-being.

$126,000–$180,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Build automation and Infrastructure as Code for scalable, self-service database provisioning and operations.
  • Ensure reliability and performance of relational databases like PostgreSQL and Aurora through deep expertise.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate data pipelines and reduce operational toil across diverse datastores.

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded in 2014, offering crypto products in over 70 countries. As a publicly traded company, it focuses on bridging traditional finance with the cryptoeconomy and scaling engineering teams.

US

  • Own and deliver quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems.
  • Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design, and analytics.
  • Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting code review and design standards, and developing talent on your team.

Affirm is a financial services company that provides buy now, pay later financing without hidden fees or compounding interest. They have millions of customers and thousands of merchant partners, and foster a culture of honesty, trust, and innovation.

$184,000–$225,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO 16w maternity 16w paternity

  • Design, build, and deploy robust backend services, data pipelines, and highly available APIs, owning the full path data takes through the platform.
  • Prototype quickly to test hypotheses, then harden validated prototypes for enterprise-scale adoption.
  • Set technical direction, mentor other engineers, and drive initiatives that span multiple services, pipelines, and teams.

Carbon Direct is a purpose-driven carbon management firm that helps organizations reduce, remove, and utilize their emissions using carbon science. They are a global team spread across 4 countries and 10+ U.S. states, with a culture that values diversity and remote-friendly work.

$180,000–$250,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Own the technical direction and architecture of critical infrastructure domains, establishing scalable patterns and standards.
  • Lead complex, multi-team infrastructure initiatives from design through implementation and production operation.
  • Design and evolve AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure to enable teams to build and deploy systems reliably at scale.

We provide innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact with confidence. Our company is backed by world-class investors including Craft Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, with offices across the US and India, and we are growing extremely quickly.

$112,000–$168,000/yr
Australia 6w PTO

  • Architect and implement production-grade integrations and distributed data systems for enterprise customers using Python, SQL, and modern API development.
  • Transform legacy ETL/ELT workflows into modern, autonomous data pipelines across AWS, Azure, or GCP and Kubernetes.
  • Integrate AI APIs like OpenAI and Anthropic, and deliver solutions from kickoff to production within an 8-12 week Accelerator window.

Matillion is the company behind Maia, an AI Data Automation platform used by Cisco, DocuSign, and Slack. They started in Manchester and now have global teams across the UK, US, and India, with a driven, curious, and energetic culture.

$165,000–$221,000/yr
Americas Unlimited PTO

  • Develop pipelines and ETL tasks with product managers, data analysts, and machine learning engineers to extract insights.
  • Translate product requirements into actionable project plans that you and your peers execute.
  • Establish data architecture processes that are scheduled, automated, replicated, and serve as standards for other teams.

Doximity is the leading clinical AI company with the largest network of U.S. clinicians, trusted by over 85% of physicians and 300+ health systems. The company values curiosity, ownership, inclusion, and meaningful impact, with a distributed team culture and over 500 private GitHub repositories.

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.

United States

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines using Python and AWS DynamoDB.
  • Develop and optimize DynamoDB data models and indexing strategies for high throughput.
  • Establish data validation, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms to ensure pipeline reliability.

Kunai builds full-stack technology solutions for banks, credit and payment networks, infrastructure providers, and their customers. With a team that thrives in a culture of collaboration and creativity, the company offers competitive compensation and professional development opportunities.

$190,000–$230,000/yr
US

  • Design, implement, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes and Pub/Sub.
  • Refactor systems for scalability, including transforming stateful components to stateless ones.
  • Drive platform reliability initiatives like alerting, health checking, and incident management.

Syllo is a unified litigation platform that empowers lawyers and paralegals to safely use language models and agentic AI throughout the litigation lifecycle. The company has gained enterprise customers including major law firms and corporations, and is quickly expanding with a focus on reducing litigation costs and improving access to justice.

Spain

  • Design, develop, and launch scalable backend systems to support Affirm's international expansion.
  • Collaborate with product, design, and analytics to define technical plans and deliver high-quality features.
  • Foster a culture of quality through code reviews, mentoring, and proactive problem-solving.

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, offering buy now pay later without hidden fees. The company is a global leader in fintch, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and people-first values.

Data Engineer

Ohr
$140,000–$200,000/yr
US

  • Build and maintain secure connectors across data platforms like Google Drive, Slack, and Claude.
  • Partner with scientists to integrate lab data collection tools into a unified, queryable platform.
  • Design pipelines for messy real-world data and own end-to-end infrastructure, from schema to monitoring.

Ohr creates molecules from atoms up using biocatalysis and primordial chemistry, powering rockets and securing industries with cleaner, scalable systems. As an early-stage company with a small, urgent team, it cultivates a culture of vision, hustle, and collaboration.

$160,000–$240,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Own the delivery of high quality software projects, coordinating with teammates and stakeholders to hit timelines.
  • Contribute to all phases of product development including specification, implementation, code review, QA, and operations.
  • Seek context and rapidly iterate on solutions to eliminate ambiguity and drive projects forward.

Opto is building a platform to modernize private markets investing for wealth managers. They combine Silicon Valley engineering talent with industry specialists and have a bold, collaborative culture.

Global Unlimited PTO 16w maternity 16w paternity

  • Lead migration of Vanta's resource data model from Mongo to Postgres while preserving APIs and customer evidence.
  • Design and evolve data ingestion pipeline for terabyte-scale streams with distributed systems.
  • Mentor senior engineers and set architectural direction for streaming infrastructure, caching, and storage.

Vanta helps businesses earn and prove trust through automated security monitoring and compliance. We have a kind and talented team, founded in 2018 to restore trust in internet businesses.

$145,000–$190,000/yr
US

  • Design and build scalable backend systems and data pipelines for the enterprise SaaS platform.
  • Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure on GCP, ensuring reliability and performance.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into technical solutions and drive engineering efficiency through automation.

LearnLux is a leading global provider of workplace financial wellbeing, blending digital planning with one-on-one guidance from Certified Financial Planners. The company is a venture-backed, series B startup with a growth-focused culture that values ownership, accountability, and high-quality work.

US

  • Lead the evolution of backend architecture, focusing on refactoring and optimizing data pipelines.
  • Drive development of next-generation distributed data storage and processing systems.
  • Design clean, expressive interfaces for data consumers including web applications, analytics, and AI.

Netherlands 4w PTO

  • Design, build, and own critical product features for high-scale backend systems serving millions of users.
  • Take full ownership from problem discovery through production rollout and long-term maintenance.
  • Collaborate closely with Product and engineering teams in a remote-first, autonomous environment.

A venture-backed technology company that builds scalable backend systems used by thousands of developers and hundreds of millions of end users. It is a remote-first, fast-growing company with a collaborative culture focused on engineering excellence.

$119,900–$193,200/yr
Global Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and maintain backend services for the data layer that stores and serves Camunda 8's process data, spanning relational databases and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
  • Own the end-to-end delivery of engineering initiatives, working with Product Management to break down requirements into concrete solution designs.
  • Help evolve how we process, retain, and expose process data, so customers can work with their data the way they need to.

Camunda is the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems. Trusted by over 700 organizations worldwide, including 9 of top 10 US banks, Camunda is fully remote and global, transforming into an AI-first organization.