Staff Backend Engineer, EMEA

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential DevSecOps platform company seeking a Staff Backend Engineer for their EMEA team. In this role, you will provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams, tackling the highest-scope and most complex backend challenges.

You will lead large, cross-cutting backend initiatives and drive modular architecture strategy. Your work will define the standards that enable teams to move faster without compromising quality, security, reliability, or operability. This is a technical leadership position that combines deep backend expertise, systems judgment, and product judgment—influencing across organizational boundaries without relying on formal authority.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the technical design and delivery of large backend initiatives that span multiple teams, identifying and removing systemic bottlenecks across product and infrastructure groups
• Driving modular backend, service, data, and platform architecture—leading modernization efforts toward modular, reusable, and appropriately independently operated systems while preventing fragmentation
• Defining and improving standards for APIs, contracts, compatibility, schema evolution, testing, security, performance, observability, and maintainability
• Creating shared patterns for dependency management, data ownership, eventing, failure isolation, and service maturity
• Establishing Go service patterns and Kubernetes operating practices, and guiding Rust adoption where it solves real systems, security, or performance problems
• Participating in on-call and incident response for the systems your teams own, acting as technical escalation during complex incidents
• Shaping technical direction across teams through clear written proposals and decision records, partnering with Product and Engineering leadership on platform roadmap decisions
• Mentoring Senior and Intermediate engineers, shepherding technical debt reduction and reusable patterns that improve throughput
• Leading team-level adoption of AI-assisted and agentic workflows, including quality, security, privacy, and operational guardrails

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

• Sustained record of technical leadership across more than one team or a broad product area
• Deep backend architecture and production experience in complex applications, services, or platforms, including scaling or governing APIs, service platforms, data systems, modular monoliths, or shared backend components
• Experience modernizing a monolith or legacy backend architecture in production, with modular architecture approaches such as bounded contexts, package encapsulation, ports and adapters, service extraction, or event-driven boundaries
• Strong ability to create alignment through clear written proposals and decision records, ensuring decisions are documented, understood, and adopted without constant escalation
• Product judgment—the ability to balance customer outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, reliability, and long-term platform investment
• Experience mentoring engineers and shaping standards through code review, documentation, and example
• Production experience with AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows, including the ability to evaluate and improve team adoption

Helpful experience:

• Go services and APIs at scale
• Kubernetes and cloud-native operations, including deployment, scaling, observability, rollback, and production readiness
• Rust adoption or production ownership for systems, security, performance, or platform components
• Ruby/Rails modularization and large-monolith modernization
• PostgreSQL scaling, data partitioning, queues, messaging, or distributed systems
• Security-sensitive product or software supply chain engineering
• Experience across SaaS, single-tenant, self-managed, or air-gapped deployment constraints

How We Work With You

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai partners with leading technology companies to connect exceptional engineering talent with high-impact opportunities. When you apply through our platform, a dedicated recruiter will review your background and conduct an initial screening to understand your experience and career goals.

If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. Throughout the process, we'll keep you informed and provide guidance. Please note that all applications must come through Get A Job.ai—we ask that you do not contact the client directly, as this allows us to best represent your candidacy and negotiate on your behalf.

This is a remote position based in the EMEA region. The role offers autonomy within a remote-first, asynchronous organization where clear written communication and self-direction are essential to success.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on your experience and location within EMEA.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to creating an inclusive recruiting process. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and experiences. If you require any accommodations during the application or interview process, please let our team know.