Staff Backend Engineer

MNTN • Remote (United States) • 9h ago

At MNTN, we put our people first, full stop. This allows our company culture to be defined by our team members and their shared values, like trust, ambition, quality, radical honesty, and compassionate leadership. It's why we all really love working for the Hardest Working Software in Television™ (and also why we were named one of Ad Age's Best Places To Work in 2024.)

We pride ourselves on bringing unrivaled performance and simplicity to Connected TV advertising. Our self-serve technology makes running TV ads as easy as search and social, helping brands drive measurable conversions, revenue, site visits, and more. It's what led MNTN to being named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2023. You can learn more about us and everything we do by visiting https://mountain.com/.

We're committed to innovation that empowers, not replaces. At MNTN, AI is a tool for growth, enhancing efficiency while keeping a people-first approach. Our goal is to streamline workflows and drive new solutions—without compromising the human element that makes our company great.

So if wanting to do more, own more, and make a bigger impact comes naturally to you, then you may be the person we're looking for to join us in our next stage of growth.

The MNTN Integrations team is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer with a focus on distributed systems to join our ranks. You will work on an existing but rapidly evolving microservice architecture that moves data into, out of, and within MNTN at hyperscale. This is a chance to get in early and do things right, to solve problems with the least amount of code possible, and to answer hard questions with a scientific, data-driven approach.

What You'll Do:

Lead or participate in architectural discussions and decision-making. Debate and commit.
This is a hands-on IC role. Design and implement Golang microservices within the Integrations ecosystem running in GCP over K8s.
Own entire data pipelines that span across APIs (gRPC, REST), messaging systems (Google Pub/Sub, AWS SQS, Kafka), shared blob storage (S3, GCS), data warehouses (Bigquery, Cloudberry), and other modalities (NoSQL, Bigtable).
Work alongside our DevOps engineers to ensure we have the latest and greatest development instrumentation and production observability (tracing, dashboards, alerting, autoscaling, triage automation).
Ensure our system has 99.999% reliability and uptime, and 0% data loss. Predict all risk vectors during the design stage, and implement solid mitigation strategies to ensure idempotency and transactionality as datasets flow through the pipes.
Perform scalability and stability analysis through an empirical approach: load testing, tracer-bullet tests in production, failover scenarios, etc.
Work with both hard requirements and an open-ended future: satisfy today's needs, but keep in mind where the platform is ultimately going.

What You'll Bring:

9+ years of experience in backend development for SaaS products.
At least 6 years of experience working with distributed microservice systems, ideally in containerized environments (Docker, k8s, ECS).
Experience with Golang, Rust, or similar non-scripting language. Additional breadth with scripting languages (e.g. Python, Node) is a plus, but not required.
Familiarity with modern distributed system instrumentation: DataDog, OpenTelemetry, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD - or their equivalent brands.

MNTN Perks:

100% remote within the US
Flexible vacation policy
Annual vacation allowance for travel related expenses
Three-day weekend every month of the year
Competitive compensation
100% healthcare coverage
401k plan
Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for dependent, medical, and dental care
Access to coaching, therapy, and professional development

About MNTN:

Our recruiters will always reach out using an email address ending with @mountain.com OR @mntn.com. If you're contacted by someone without that address and they mention a Reference Code (which we never use), then that ain't us folks. Tell those trolls to take a hike–you're waiting to climb a MNTN.

MNTN provides advertising software for brands to reach their audience across Connected TV, web, and mobile. MNTN Performance TV has redefined what it means to advertise on television, transforming Connected TV into a direct-response, performance marketing channel. Our web retargeting has been leveraged by thousands of top brands for over a decade, driving billions of dollars in revenue.

Our solutions give advertisers total transparency and complete control over their campaigns all with the fastest go-live in the industry. As a result, thousands of top brands have partnered with MNTN, including OneWheel, Tarte, Decked, and National University.

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