Backend Engineer

About the Company

We build infrastructure that delivers massive amounts of web data to the companies training the world's most powerful AI models. We power and support Grass, a bandwidth-sharing network that operates a massive distributed crawler, providing unique access to high-quality public web data at global scale.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve backend code primarily in TypeScript
• Set up and maintain metrics dashboards for production systems
• Update existing code to support new metrics and improve system observability
• Set up alerts and work closely with DevOps to optimize production systems
• Automate deployments and operational reporting to Slack
• Test systems in production, identify and troubleshoot issues, and fix bugs
• Help clean up and improve the existing codebase
• Write and maintain automated tests
• Improve and optimize deployment processes
• Implement code enhancements as new requirements emerge

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• 2+ years of experience in a backend software engineering role
• Solid TypeScript development skills
• Strong backend software engineering fundamentals
• Good understanding of metrics, monitoring, and alerting
• Ability to debug and troubleshoot production systems
• Ability to write clean, maintainable, well-tested code

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Go
• Experience with Datadog, OpenObserve, and/or building Slack bots or integrations
• Familiarity with web scraping and browser automation, including Playwright