Backend Engineer (API Platform Team) - Remote

Overview

We are looking for a talented Software Engineer based in Europe to join our new API Platform team. This team owns Neon's public API and Console service – the foundation every internal product squad builds on – so that developers can create, deploy, and operate features rapidly and with rock‑solid reliability. By delivering clear API contracts, actionable customer‑level usage insights, and robust deployment pipelines that support multi‑region roll‑outs and zero‑downtime releases, you will help every Neon feature team ship faster while meeting the highest standards for stability, observability, and performance.

In Short

• Own the API as a product: design versioning, throttling, and customer‑level usage metrics; ensure backward‑compatibility for clients.
• Expand reliability: deliver end‑to‑end tracing, structured logs, rich metrics, and proactive error tracking as self‑service building blocks for every feature team.
• Drive scalability initiatives: guide performance‑ and capacity‑driven architecture work so our platform stays fast, cost‑efficient, and resilient as traffic grows 10x.
• Collaborate: mentor teammates, facilitate architecture reviews, and co-shape the engineering roadmap.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong foundation in building scalable systems.
• Proven track record designing and evolving public APIs (REST or gRPC) consumed by external developers or IaC tooling (Terraform, etc.)
• Strong experience building and maintaining production-grade backend systems and APIs, ideally in Go.
• Deep understanding of SRE practices (SLO/SLI budgeting, incident response, post‑mortems), yet able to keep the mindset of a feature‑enabling platform team.
• Experience running services across multiple regions or availability zones.
• Familiarity with our stack: OpenAPI, Grafana, Loki, Sentry, React (nice‑to‑have), Kubernetes.

Benefits

• You have an opportunity to be an early employee in a fast-scaling ambitious team.
• You can work 100% remote: we'll handle all formalities to arrange work from your home.
• We grant equity (stock options) to all full-time hires.
• We offer a competitive benefits package in line with all tech companies (top-notch equipment, unlimited vacations, paid parental leaves, and much more).
• We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Lisbon, Portugal).