About the job
Senior Staff Backend Engineer
Location: Manhattan, New York
Onsite | Full-time
Join our dynamic team at mlabs, the innovative engine behind one of the most visited platforms in the digital asset industry. With a staggering ~$1B in daily volume, our cutting-edge technology stack is designed to manage low-latency, high-throughput, and consistent load at an unprecedented scale.
The Role
As a Senior Staff Backend Engineer, you will be a pivotal technical leader, ensuring the robustness and continuous advancement of our core backend systems. Your role involves a combination of high-level architectural oversight and hands-on execution, focusing on mitigating scaling challenges and designing resilient, fault-tolerant systems that can handle substantial workloads.
What You’ll Do:
- Own & Execute: Take charge of writing and deploying production code for core services, leading the design and implementation of high-scale distributed systems.
- Architect for Scale: Make informed decisions that harmonize swift iteration with long-term system scalability and maintainability.
- Drive Initiatives: Spearhead projects that involve multiple services, including storage, compute, APIs, and blockchain infrastructure.
- Set the Standard: Create benchmarks for observability, reliability, and performance, while enhancing engineering quality through design reviews and RFCs.
- Technical Leadership: Serve as a technical anchor during critical incidents and mentor peers, sharing your depth of knowledge and clarity of thought.
- Optimize Velocity: Enhance the internal developer experience by refining tools, CI/CD pipelines, and service abstractions.

