Senior Backend Engineer - Reliability Team - Remote

Overview

As a Senior Backend Engineer for the Reliability Team at Hive, you will be responsible for the performance, reliability, and maintainability of our systems, ensuring our services are scalable, performant, secure, and cost-effective.

In Short

• Champion system observability improvements for business-critical services
• Drive SLO adoption and improvement for customer satisfaction
• Enhance application performance from infrastructure to runtime
• Resolve complex technical challenges across the stack
• Design and implement scalable, reliable solutions
• Lead security and compliance initiatives
• Craft developer tools to boost productivity
• Optimize cloud infrastructure costs
• Collaborate with DevOps on deployment pipelines
• Contribute to incident management and improve system stability

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, especially in reliability
• 3+ years experience with AWS and monitoring solutions
• Track record of implementing SLOs and uptime KPIs
• Expert knowledge of Linux, Docker, and distributed systems
• Solid programming skills in Python, Go, etc.
• Strong grasp of security best practices
• Excellent communication skills for team collaboration

Benefits

• Meaningful salary and equity based on impact
• Fully remote work from Canada
• Opportunity to shape reliability practices
• Collaborative team of experienced engineers
• Flexible work hours with minimal meetings
• Health & Dental coverage
• Open vacation/PTO policy
• Generous parental leave top-up