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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Whip Networks, Inc.
- **Location:** Santa Monica, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $180,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Software Quality, Databases, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Github, Protocol Buffers, PostgreSQL, Performance Tuning, Runbook, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Api Design, Restful APIs, Terraform, Grpc, AWS EKS, Microservices
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=32b4003243d1b08e

## About the Role

* Strong backend engineering experience and production ownership
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Experience building microservices and running them in production
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Go experience, or deep systems language experience and you can ramp to Go quickly
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API design experience, gRPC and protobuf experience is a strong plus
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Strong PostgreSQL fundamentals and real experience with migrations and performance tuning
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Kubernetes experience in production, EKS is a plus
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A practical quality mindset, you write tests and you care about operability

Nice to have:

 * Multi tenant SaaS experience and an opinion on tenant isolation and authorization boundaries
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Kafka experience (consumer groups, idempotency, event schemas)
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Envoy or gRPC Web experience
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Helm, GitHub Actions, Terraform, AWS networking and ingress patterns
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Observability experience (structured logs, metrics, tracing, OpenTelemetry)

## Description

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Helix Platform team, you will build and operate the foundational services, tooling, and patterns used across the Helix ecosystem. You'll work heavily in Go, build gRPC + REST APIs, design multi-tenant data models in PostgreSQL (JSONB included), and ship production workloads on Kubernetes (EKS) using Helm + GitHub Actions. This role is ideal for someone who loves both shipping features and strengthening the platform underneath them, performance, reliability, security, operability, and clean developer experience. This is a remote role based in Los Angeles or New York City., * Build and operate core Helix services and shared platform capabilities (tenant foundations, auth patterns, metadata and records patterns, eventing patterns, shared libraries)
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Design and implement APIs using gRPC protobuf and REST
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Work in PostgreSQL every day, including schema design, migrations, JSONB modeling, and performance tuning
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Deploy and run services on AWS EKS, including ALB ingress, health checks, scaling, and production debugging
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Publish and consume events via Kafka and design event contracts that hold up over time
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Improve developer velocity by contributing to Helm templates, CI CD workflows, service scaffolding, and configuration standards (including secrets and environment management)
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Raise the bar on testing, code quality, observability, and operational hygiene
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Mentor other engineers and lead technical conversations that unblock teams

What Success looks like:

In the first 3 to 6 months you should be able to:

 * Ship meaningful platform improvements that reduce friction for multiple Helix service teams
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Own a capability end to end (design through rollout) that becomes a reusable pattern across services
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Find and fix at least one production reliability or performance issue (database, ingress, scaling, eventing, etc)
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Improve standards in a way that sticks (tests, CI checks, runbooks, dashboards)


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