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# Senior/Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Workforce, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Database Models, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), NoSQL, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, SQL Databases, Strategies of Testing, Datadog, Data Logging, Caching, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Graphql, Api Design, Terraform, Microservices
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_46a9c8c963d16c9b9b0d198f56ef1b5e

## About the Role

Must-Have

 * 5+ years building backend systems or platform services in production (Python, Java, or Go).
 * Proven experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
 * Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, REST/GraphQL API design, and database modeling (SQL & NoSQL).
 * Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and observability tooling.

Preferred

 * Experience driving reliability engineering practices (SLOs, incident retrospectives) and performance optimization at scale.
 * Background in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or large-scale data processing.

## Description

* Design, implement, and own highly available microservices and backend APIs that serve large-scale traffic with low latency.
 * Drive architecture and implementation decisions across the stack: data models, storage patterns (SQL/NoSQL), caching, and event-driven systems.
 * Ship secure, well-tested code-lead code reviews, define testing strategies, and establish CI/CD best practices.
 * Instrument systems for observability: metrics, tracing, and logging; proactively diagnose and resolve production incidents.
 * Collaborate with product, security, and SRE teams to scope features, estimate delivery, and define SLAs and SLOs.
 * Mentor engineers, promote engineering excellence, and contribute to roadmap and technical planning.