Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Content Lake DX Scale

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to shape the future of the Content Lake backend, to store and query content with unparalleled speed, scale, and freshness. This unique challenge calls for a deep understanding of computer science fundamentals complemented by practical experience applying your knowledge to real-world use cases.

Who are we?

Sanity.iois the fastest, mostflexible platformfor delivering content to digital devices and products. Our platform is redefining the CMS market and changing the way organizations collaborate and work with content. Our growing community of developers and editors proves we are improving the working lives of people all over the world.

Sanity is trusted by organizations from Spotify to Figma and Stack Overflow. That trust is based on our product’s ability to quickly create customized workflows and content models, drive a programmatic approach to content, and enable organizations to distribute structured content from a single source of truth.

Sanity is backed by ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, Lead Edge Capital, Heavybit, Alliance Venture, Monochrome Capital, and prominent angel investors like Twitter and Medium co-founder Ev Williams, Netlify co-founder Matthias Biilmann, ex-CEO of Heroku Adam Gross and Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch.

We believe that you cannot build a great company without a great culture. Read about our valueshereand join us in building a diverse and inclusive team.

About the role

As a senior back end software engineer on the Content Lake Developer Experience team, you’ll be responsible for building highly scalable, performant distributed systems providing our core content creation and querying capabilities.

You’ll be solving challenging scalability problems such as how to serve millions of requests a minute whilst keeping our content up to date and fresh. This could be via experimenting and exploring how to cache more intelligently, how to optimize our search store or even write a novel indexing solution from scratch.

What you will be doing

• Drive the design and development of valuable product increments.
• Lead critical incidents responses and fix our most complex defects.
• Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence through peer-reviewing others’ work, testing code, and championing our coding standards.
• Coach teammates and provide technical mentorship to level up the whole team.
• Retrospect and influence how our team works recommending product or process improvements.

This may be you

• A strong foundational knowledge and interest in computer science. This includes but is not limited to algorithms, abstract data types, data structures, complexity theory, graph theory, statistics, language parsing and array programming. Ideally, you already have experience in database programming, information retrieval and key/value stores.
• Have a passion for cutting edge computer science research, keeping up to date with the latest work by reading and sharing research with your team.
• Care about understanding systems in depth. Not only using databases to solve problems, but knowing how they are implemented.
• A proven track record of building and running distributed applications at scale.
• An expert in any back end language; however, you’ll be required to write in Go and some Typescript / Node.js.
• A compassionate, friendly human being that cares about and shows respect to the people you work with as well as having empathy for our users.
• Able to clearly and concisely communicate technical designs and thinking both verbally and in writing.
• Experience working at a product/SaaS company.

There are many roads leading up to being a Senior Software Engineer. Our team is already a mix of self-taught and formally educated people. Don’t self-select out!

What we can offer:

• A highly skilled, inspiring, and supportive team where long-term personal growth is encouraged and supported.
• Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment.
• A very global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers.
• Location: Remote in North America (East Coast/ET) or Remote in Europe.
• Comprehensive health plans and perks.
• A healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs.
• Competitive salary and stock options program.

Sanity.io pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.