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Senior Backend Engineer

BERLIN OR REMOTE EU
FULL-TIME
€95K TO €125K + EQUITY
Pixel Bloom lattice in warm cream with a single cobalt pixel cluster

About the role

You will work on the sandbox runtime that runs 1.2M agent runs a month: scheduling, isolation, snapshots and the trace pipeline behind every replay. Small team, real ownership, and a pager you share with four other engineers.

What you will do

  • Design and run the scheduler that places sandboxes across 11 regions
  • Cut cold starts below 500 ms without giving up isolation
  • Own the trace store and its retention controls
  • Write the design docs, and review the ones your teammates write
  • Join the on-call rotation one week in five

What you bring

  • Six or more years building backend systems in Go, Rust or similar
  • Hands-on experience with containers, Firecracker or gVisor
  • A habit of measuring before and after every change
  • Clear written communication in English

Nice to have

  • You have run a multi-region system in production
  • You have contributed to an open-source runtime

How we hire

  1. 01

    Intro call

    30 minutes with the hiring manager.

  2. 02

    Written exercise

    A short design doc, paid, on your own time.

  3. 03

    Team interviews

    Three conversations with future teammates.

  4. 04

    Offer

    Within a week of the last interview.

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