[Remote] Staff Software Engineer (backend)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tines is a company that powers important workflows through its intelligent workflow platform, utilizing AI and automation. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead technical direction and improve backend systems, ensuring high-quality code and mentoring other engineers in a collaborative environment.ResponsibilitiesLead the technical direction for some of Tines’ most critical systemsMake valuable changes in our codebase in your first week, and see them live in production minutes after merging themShape how jobs and code are executed at the very heart of our application, to help us power the world’s most important workflowsWrite and review high-quality, well-tested code to ensure that we’re creating a stable product for our customers, and a stress-free codebase for ourselvesIdentify areas for improvement, both in our codebase and in how we work, and share the responsibility of making our team betterOwn the problems you’re solving - and the software you write to solve them - all the way to production and beyond, responding to customer feedback to improve those solutionsUse your knowledge to mentor other engineers in our team, providing support and guidance to help them grow their abilitiesBuild robust, high-availability systems that can support massive data throughput requirementsImprove action throughput to meet our growing customers’ scaleCreate internal and customer-facing controls that allow Tines and our customers to configure job prioritization levels, ensuring the most critical workflows are executed in a timely mannerBuild features that allow customers to execute code in our productEnsure customers’ jobs are executed in a balanced and fair manner, particularly on multitenant stacksWrite a blog post to share something interesting we learned with the communitySkillsTypically 10+ years as a professional software engineerProven track record of success as a staff software engineerLinux systems expertise in namespaces, file descriptors, Unix sockets, mounts, networking, and process isolationExperience with container runtimes, orchestration, or code execution platformsFilesystem and storage experience, including POSIX behavior, content-addressed storage, and crash recoveryExperience in building and owning low-level system primitives in Rust or GoStrong debugging skills: able to build focused reproducers for complex kernel, runtime, and storage issues, and use logs, traces, metrics, and tests to isolate root causeYour abilities matter, not your education or exactly where you've workedThis role is broad, not specializedWe're focused on the most important problems, not the most interesting onesEngineer productivity is hugely important to usWe work healthily and sustainablyYour contributions will be obviousWe're building an inclusive, supportive teamCompany OverviewTines is a no-code workflow automation platform designed especially for security teams. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in Dublin, Dublin, IRL, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.tines.com.