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Backend Engineer
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Austin, Travis County, Texas, 78716, USA
Listed on 2026-02-16
Listing for:
Harnham
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-02-16
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Data Engineer, Software Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
What You'll Do
- Own and evolve the metrics platform, including schemas, storage layouts optimized for high-volume writes and fast analytical reads, and clear versioning strategies
- Build and maintain a framework for writing and running metrics, including interfaces, examples, local execution, and CI compatibility checks
- Design and implement testing systems for metrics and pipelines, including unit, contract, and regression tests using synthetic and sampled data
- Operate compute and storage systems in production, with responsibility for monitoring, debugging, stability, and cost awareness
- Partner with metric authors and stakeholders across development, analytics, and QA to plan changes and roll them out safely
- Strong experience using Python in production
, including asynchronous programming (e.g., asyncio, aiohttp, FastAPI) - Advanced SQL skills, including complex joins, window functions, CTEs, and query optimization through execution plan analysis
- Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
, with the ability to make informed performance trade-offs - Experience with databases
, especially PostgreSQL (required); experience with Click House is a strong plus - Understanding of OLTP vs. OLAP trade-offs and how schema and storage decisions affect performance
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow (used today), Prefect, Argo, or Dagster
- Familiarity with data libraries and validation frameworks (Num Py, pandas, Pydantic, or equivalents)
- Experience building web services (FastAPI, Flask, Django, or similar)
- Comfort working with containers and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience working with large-scale datasets and data-intensive systems
- Ability to read and make small changes in C++ code
- Experience building ML-adjacent metrics or evaluation infrastructure
- Familiarity with Parquet and object storage layout/partitioning strategies
- Experience with Kafka or task queues
- Exposure to basic observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing)
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