About the role
Responsibilities:
- Design and build highly scalable, low-latency backend services and APIs powering core Portkey products.
- Lead architecture for major product areassolving hard distributed systems problems around routing, reliability, observability, performance, and data scale.
- Own system design, implementation, testing, and deployment with strong attention to reliability and correctness.
- Work closely with product, infra, and AI platform teams to deliver features with high velocity and high quality.
- Mentor engineers, influence best practices, and shape long-term technical vision.
- Drive performance optimization, cost efficiency, and operational excellence across backend systems.
Requirements:
- 7-10+ years of backend engineering experience with deep expertise in building large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong proficiency in backend, along with experience in microservices architectures.
- Expertise in both SQL and NoSQL systems (e. g., Postgres, MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Cassandra, etc. ).
- Strong grasp of caching, queues, and event-driven architectures.
- Solid understanding of AWS/GCP, container orchestration, and modern infra/tooling.
- Experience designing and operating high-throughput, high-availability systems.