Cranial Technologies is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation to lead the design and development of a unified, Go-based instrumentation service that consolidates analytics instrumentation across our engineering organization. You will architect and own critical backend systems that provide data on customer usage patterns to inform strategic product decisions and billing.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain a unified Go-based instrumentation service that consolidates instrumentation across the entire company.
- Own the responsibility for handling the sending, transit, and quality of instrumentation data across the system.
- Train and support product development teams across the company on how to instrument their features using the unified service.
- Manage on-call responsibilities during working hours for systems responsible for usage billing and instrumentation.
- Lead collaboration across research and development teams and the enterprise data organization to understand requirements.
- Make strategic architectural decisions that balance the needs of product teams with data consumers.
What We're Looking For
- Proficiency in the Go programming language, with experience building and maintaining production services.
- Strong backend development experience, with the ability to design scalable, reliable systems.
- Experience with infrastructure concerns such as system reliability, performance at scale, data quality, and observability.
- Experience designing and building APIs (REST, gRPC, or similar) that other teams integrate with.
- Experience working in collaborative, cross-functional teams with product teams, data consumers, and other internal stakeholders.
Nice to Have
- Experience with instrumentation, analytics, data systems, or similar foundational infrastructure.
- Ruby on Rails experience.
Technical Stack
- Golang
Team & Environment
Part of the Data Engineering organization, operates as a foundational service supporting all R&D teams.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $117,600 - $252,000 USD
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support
Work Mode
This is a global remote position, open to candidates in the Americas and APAC regions.
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