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Senior Software Engineer - Backend Platform
Customer.io
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Executive opportunity brief
The decision in one screen
A compact evidence-first read of compensation, flexibility, mobility and what still needs verification. No universal quality score is used.
Fast read
Opportunity DNA
The available details do not point to a single standout advantage yet. The clearest issue to weigh is location rules could change the fit.
Current comparable position is around the 34th percentile.
Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
Some access and qualification signals are clear, but the overall entry path is neither unusually open nor unusually restrictive.
Sponsorship and relocation support are not clear from the current listing.
Part of the application route can be assessed, but the full external process may contain additional steps.
At least one recent enabled source can still renew this vacancy.
This fingerprint summarizes what is clear, constrained or still unanswered in the current listing. It is a reading aid, not an overall job score.
Decision evidence check
4 of 5 core facts stated
This checks whether the listing states the facts that commonly change an employment decision. It measures disclosure completeness, not whether the opportunity is good or bad.
Facts already stated
- Compensation
- Work arrangement
- Advertised location
- Employment type
What to verify next
- Application closing time: Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?
Advertised location is not proof of work authorization, sponsorship, or legal eligibility. Unknown information is not a negative score; verify those questions separately.
Decision levers
What could make or break the fit?
Reasons to look closer
Nothing stands out strongly enough yet to call a clear advantage. The role may still be attractive for reasons the listing does not spell out.
Trade-offs to weigh
- Location rules could change the fit: Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
Questions worth asking before you invest more time
- Confirm whether a degree is actually required, preferred, or replaceable with equivalent experience.
- Confirm the actual minimum experience requirement rather than assuming preferred background is mandatory.
- Ask whether visa sponsorship is available before investing significant time in the application.
These questions come from details the listing leaves open. An unanswered point is not treated as a disadvantage.
Opportunity neighborhood
Keep your options open
These live roles sit close enough to this opportunity to make useful comparison points. Look across several employers before deciding what pay, flexibility or access trade-offs you are willing to accept.
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Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work arrangement
About 34% lower advertised midpoint
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Klaviyo · USA
Why it is nearby: Same country · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type
About 17% lower advertised midpoint
Different angle: Seniority is not explicit
Senior Developer Relations, Twitter Brand Rep
Supabase · Anywhere
Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type
Senior iOS Software Engineer - Brazil
Housecall Pro · Brazil
Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Similar work arrangement · Recently posted
About 55% lower advertised midpoint
Different angle: Different country
This neighborhood is drawn from current inventory in the same broad occupation. Similarity is based on explicit listing facts; missing details do not count against a job.
Role market context
How much current choice is visible around this kind of work?
This compares the vacancy with current High Paid Job inventory in the broad Software engineering roles family. It describes visible choice and disclosure, not future demand or career quality.
200 most recent current roles sampled for the disclosure measures below.
Distinct employers in the bounded current sample, not an estimate of all employers hiring in the market.
Current sampled roles stating at least four of the five Core Decision Facts.
Requires a numeric amount, explicit ISO currency and supported pay period.
Listings with explicit enough remote, hybrid or on-site evidence to classify.
Missing deadline evidence remains unknown and is not interpreted as an open-ended application window.
Currencies with explicit pay evidence in the sample: USD (30) · EUR (10) · GBP (2) · CAD (2). Raw amounts across different currencies are not compared.
This describes current visible High Paid Job inventory in the same broad occupation family. Percentages use a bounded recent sample and are not a forecast, a complete labor-market census or an employer-quality measure.
Constraint opportunity lab
What changes the size of the current opportunity pool?
Each line applies one stricter evidence-based constraint to the same bounded current role-family sample. It helps you see the trade-off in visible choice without deciding which trade-off is right for you.
Counts only affirmative or possible sponsorship evidence, or relocation explicitly offered. Unknown is not treated as no.
A much stricter subset: only listings with explicit worldwide-remote evidence remain.
Requires amount, explicit ISO currency and a supported pay period. Missing pay evidence remains unknown.
Shows the subset with enough stated evidence for a more informed first comparison.
Uses only roles where a country is known. Roles without country evidence are excluded from this denominator.
Counts roles explicitly classified as worldwide remote, region-restricted remote or remote with restrictions still unclear.
Only same-currency opportunities with usable annualized pay enter this comparison. Other currencies are not converted or treated as lower.
Uses only roles with a stated employment type.
These are counterfactual filters over a bounded sample of current HPJ inventory in the same broad occupation family. They show how visible choice changes when one evidence-based constraint is applied; they do not tell you which constraint you should choose or predict hiring outcomes. The calculation uses the 200 most recent current roles from 3349 visible roles in this broad family.
Salary transparency context
Is pay disclosure typical for this kind of role?
This listing states usable structured compensation. About 22% of the bounded current role sample does the same.
Compensation counts only when amount, ISO currency and supported pay period are all known.
Pay disclosure is uncommon in the current role sample.
This employer’s current visible listings disclose pay materially more often than the current same-role sample.
This compares salary-disclosure behavior in current visible listings. It does not compare raw salary amounts across currencies, infer undisclosed pay as zero, or rate employer quality.
Private offer & negotiation lab
Turn an offer into evidence, not guesswork
Enter an annual base offer and, if you want, your own target. HPJ compares only within one explicit currency and never chooses a target for you.
Negotiation evidence available: advertised pay range, current same-currency market context, strong decision evidence.
Enter an annual base offer to compare it with explicit same-currency evidence. HPJ will not suggest a target for you.
Review the full package · 10 terms
Mark what is confirmed, what needs clarification and what you want to prioritize. These choices and notes stay in this browser.
Usable advertised compensation is available.
Variable compensation is mentioned; verify amount, formula, target and eligibility.
Equity or long-term incentive language is mentioned; verify grant type, vesting and valuation basis.
Retirement or pension benefits are mentioned; verify employer contribution and vesting.
Health-benefit language is mentioned; verify coverage, dependants and employee cost.
Paid-leave language is mentioned; verify the exact entitlement and carry-over rules.
A work-arrangement signal is available; verify schedule details before relying on it.
Relocation support not established
Sponsorship not established
A review cycle is mentioned; verify timing and whether compensation can change at that review.
Questions worth taking into the offer conversation
- Is there a bonus, commission or other variable-pay component, and how is it calculated?
- What retirement or pension contribution does the employer provide?
- If relocation is relevant, what expenses, timing and repayment conditions are covered?
- What exact sponsorship or work-authorization conditions apply to this role?
- When is the first performance and compensation review after joining?
- Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?
Occupation intelligence
What broader career references connect to this role?
HPJ uses broad comparison families for current-market analysis. External taxonomy results are reference candidates for that broad family, not a declaration that this vacancy has been authoritatively classified into a specific occupation.
European occupation references
- software developer
- embedded systems software developer
- industrial mobile devices software developer
- ICT application developer
- IoT developer
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.
U.S. occupation references
- Software Developers 15-1252.00
- Computer Programmers 15-1251.00
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 15-1253.00
- Computer Systems Analysts 15-1211.00
- Computer Systems Engineers/Architects 15-1299.08
This site incorporates information from O*NET Web Services by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.
Career reference research
Skills worth investigating
Official occupational context, paired with exact phrases visible in this vacancy. It is not a skills test or an applicant-fit score.
ESCO · European occupation
software developer
Usually essential in this ESCO occupation
- perform scientific research
- ICT debugging tools
- engineering principles
- computer programming
- project management
- technical drawings
- define technical requirements
Context-dependent ESCO skills
- JavaScript
- KDevelop
- OpenEdge Advanced Business Language
- Apache Tomcat
- SQL
O*NET · U.S. occupation
Software Developers
O*NET occupation skills
- Programming
- Critical Thinking
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Active Learning
- Reading Comprehension
- Systems Analysis
- Active Listening
- Complex Problem Solving
Build my private skill preparation brief Your evidence · Practice · Interview questions
Plan how you might demonstrate or investigate occupational skills. These are broad-family reference examples, not confirmed vacancy requirements. Nothing you enter is sent to High Paid Job.
Private to this browser. Up to 20 reference skills; not a qualification assessment or hiring prediction.
Useful next question: Which of these occupational reference skills does the hiring manager actually expect for this specific role, and what evidence would demonstrate them?
These skills belong to one reference occupation selected for HPJ’s broad career family, not a verified classification of this vacancy. Text overlap only means a phrase appears in the available listing text; it does not establish an employer requirement, your proficiency, or a qualification gap. A missing mention is unknown, not a deficit.
Adjacent current roles to investigate
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Supabase · USA
same stated country · same employment type · similar work-arrangement evidenceAdjacent-family roles are exploration prompts from current HPJ inventory. They are not inferred qualification matches and they do not imply a promotion path.
Career move map
What sits one step away?
This listing is currently read as Senior / lead. Nearby roles one visible seniority step away can help you judge whether to widen the search, stretch upward or compare the responsibilities more carefully.
Broader-entry direction
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Bright Vision Technologies · Remote — Worldwide
Similar work arrangement · Same employment type · Recently posted Advertised midpoint is about 20% lowerStretch direction
Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Customer.io · LATAM, Canada, USA
Same country · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type Advertised midpoint is about 26% higherDirector, Software Engineering
Wpp
Recently postedThese are live roles one visible seniority step away in the same broad occupation family. They can reveal nearby options, but they are not a guaranteed promotion path and do not account for your personal experience.
Skill bridge
What does this role connect to?
AWS is one of the signals this listing shares with skills appearing often across current Software engineering roles opportunities.
Skills named in this listing
Shared with the current career sample
- AWS Seen in 32 sampled listings
- PostgreSQL Seen in 28 sampled listings
- React Seen in 28 sampled listings
Additional signals in this listing: Google Cloud · MySQL
Application edge
- If these skills match your background, prepare one concrete example that shows how you used AWS, Google Cloud, and MySQL rather than relying on a keyword-only claim.
- The listing mentions extra application steps. Review those requirements before starting so you can prepare the requested material in one pass.
If the named skills are genuinely transferable in your own experience, the occupation map also points to adjacent current families worth researching: Data & AI roles, Cybersecurity roles, and Product roles. This is exploration context, not a qualification match.
Skill signals come from explicit text mentions. A mention is not automatically a requirement, and absence from the current top-skill list does not make a skill rare or unimportant. The current career comparison draws on 120 sampled listings; 114 contain a recognized skill signal.
Application Decision Lab
Turn the listing into a preparation plan
Separate what the listing actually states from what you still need to prepare or verify. Your selections and short notes stay in this browser and are never submitted to High Paid Job.
Non-standard schedule requirement stated
The available wording indicates night, weekend, rotating-shift or on-call work.
AWS
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Google Cloud
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
MySQL
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
PostgreSQL
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
React
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Prepare for a stated application step
A background or pre-employment screening step is explicitly mentioned.
Questions worth resolving before you rely on the opportunity
- Application closing time: Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?
- Work authorization / sponsorship: If sponsorship or work authorization matters to you, what exact immigration or employer-sponsorship conditions apply to this role?
Decision analysis
What the listing really tells you
Senior Software Engineer - Backend Platform at Customer.io becomes easier to judge once the advertised pay can be placed in context, the location rules are clear enough to judge, and qualifications reveal more than the job title alone are viewed together. Here is the current read from the information available.
The advertised pay can be placed in context
Among 142 current comparable salaries in USD, the normalized annual midpoint is around the 34th percentile. This compares advertised pay in the same currency and does not include every element of total compensation.
The location rules are clear enough to judge
The work-location pattern is “Remote with some uncertainty or restrictions”, with Remote Freedom at 62/100. One practical limit to notice is geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region..
Qualifications reveal more than the job title alone
1 additional stated barrier. Only requirements actually stated in the listing are counted; anything left unsaid remains unresolved.
The application route gives a few useful clues
Provider-mediated application path · 1 visible process step. The external application may contain additional steps that are not visible from the listing itself.
The listing can be traced to a current source
1 recent enabled source can currently renew this vacancy across 1 source classes. That improves traceability, although it does not verify the employer itself.
How this analysis is assembled
Built from the pay, location, qualification, mobility, application and source details available for this vacancy. Anything the listing leaves unresolved stays unresolved.
Analysis evidence coverage
How much analysis can the current evidence support?
Uses the explainable High Pay Score within the job’s current occupation/seniority/currency comparison sample.
Measures observable location flexibility and explicit restrictions; it does not determine whether remote work is personally desirable.
The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.
The source posting date is today.
At least one enabled source recently observed the vacancy. The source chain is traceable, but this is not independent employer verification.
There is no universal opportunity score because pay, flexibility and access matter differently to different people. Compare Jobs lets you weight the evidence around your own priorities.
Decision checklist
What is supported, uncertain or worth checking?
This checklist separates supported strengths, visible cautions and missing evidence. It is not an overall recommendation or guarantee that the job is suitable for you.
Supported strengths
No standout strength is supported strongly enough to list here. That is not a negative rating.
Visible cautions
- Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
- The role may involve non-standard hours or on-call work.
- This is remote work with a geographic restriction, not a worldwide-remote vacancy.
- Non-standard schedule requirement stated
Still unknown
- Visa sponsorship is not established by the available listing data.
Pay vs. barriers
Pay and barrier context available
The current pay position can be viewed alongside the stated barriers, but the available detail does not support a stronger conclusion.
Comparable disclosed-pay evidence places this job at about 34 / 100 within its current occupation/seniority sample.
1 explicit required barrier is visible in the available wording.
1 explicit Remote Freedom restriction signal is present and is shown separately from qualification requirements.
- Education requirement is not established.
- Required prior-experience level is not established.
This section weighs pay context against clearly stated barriers without collapsing unlike requirements into one universal score. Degree, experience, licensing, clearance and location limits remain separate, and missing qualification details stay unknown.
Beyond the headline
Not enough evidence for a hidden-value finding
Potential hidden value appears only when several distinct non-pay advantages are actually supported. Missing requirements or benefits are never counted as positives.
Still check: Non-standard schedule requirement stated · The current application path is provider-mediated rather than directly classified as an employer-authorized or official route.
Hidden Value is an experimental evidence summary, not an investment-style score or guarantee of employability. It only uses explicit current listing evidence and does not infer that an unmentioned qualification is unnecessary.
Explainable opportunity highlight
Why this opportunity stands out
These are supported signals from the current listing and comparison sample—not a guarantee that this is the best job for you.
The source provides structured salary information with a comparatively focused range, improving the usefulness of pay comparisons.
The source posting date is today.
Compensation intelligence
How competitive is this pay?
Below many comparable disclosed salaries
The annualized midpoint is below the current comparable median but remains within the sample’s lower-to-middle range.
The highlighted band is the middle 50% of the current comparable sample after the outlier guard. The dark marker is this job’s annualized salary midpoint.
Why this analysis?
- This score reflects the current advertised-pay distribution for comparable active jobs in the same currency. It measures pay position, not overall job quality.
- Salary confidence: High. The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.
- Range quality: Focused salary range.
Employer compensation communication
Pay transparency at Customer.io
Very strong current pay transparency
This score uses the employer’s current visible listings and combines how often pay is disclosed with how useful those ranges are. Bonus, equity and benefit mentions are shown separately and do not raise the score.
This pattern comes from the employer’s current visible vacancies. It describes hiring and pay transparency in those listings, not employee satisfaction or a permanent judgement of the employer.
Current employer intelligence
Customer.io — current opportunity snapshot
Employer Evidence Profile
How often this employer’s current visible sampled vacancies state decision-critical information. These percentages describe evidence coverage, not employer quality.
Current sampled listings with advertised compensation evidence.
Current sampled listings whose work arrangement is clearer than unknown.
Current sampled listings with a supported country signal.
Current sampled listings with an explicit closing time.
Current sampled listings with a usable posting date.
Current sampled listings that explicitly indicate confirmed, possible or unavailable sponsorship evidence.
Current sampled listings with an explicit relocation signal.
Low coverage means the current visible listings state the information less often. It does not prove that the employer lacks the policy, benefit or support.
Common current occupation families: Software engineering (5) · Sales (4) · Finance Accounting (3)
Visible seniority mix: Senior / lead (7) · Leadership (14)
Current employment-type mix: Full time (25)
Most visible hiring countries in this sample: United States (15) · United Kingdom (1)
Other current roles from this employer
Staff Software Engineer, Backend
LATAM, Canada, USA
Leadership · Region-restricted remoteSenior Product Manager, Workflows
LATAM, Canada, USA
Leadership · Region-restricted remoteSenior Developer Experience Engineer, Integrations
LATAM, Canada, USA
Senior / lead · Region-restricted remoteSenior Brand Designer
LATAM, Canada, USA
Leadership · Region-restricted remoteThese are other current vacancies visible from the same employer, not endorsements or evidence of future hiring plans.
Current disclosed salary medians by currency
- USD 175,000 median · 21 disclosed salaries
Questions worth asking this employer
- If work authorization matters to you, what sponsorship policy applies to this specific role and location?
- If a move is required, is relocation assistance available for this position?
- What is the expected application and interview timeline if the listing does not state a closing date?
These questions are prompted by missing or thin evidence in the employer’s current visible vacancies. Missing evidence is not treated as a negative judgement.
This employer snapshot uses the employer’s current visible listings. Remote and sponsorship rates use only vacancies with explicit evidence, while missing information stays unknown. Salary medians are shown separately by currency and need at least five disclosed salaries. Zero confirmed sponsorship means none was explicitly found in this sample, not that sponsorship is unavailable.
This snapshot describes the employer’s current visible vacancies—things such as pay disclosure and work arrangement. It is not an employee-satisfaction or hiring-quality rating, and different currencies stay separate.
Work-location intelligence
Remote Freedom
Remote with some uncertainty or restrictions
Why this score?
- The role is remote but the source identifies a country or regional restriction.
Location restrictions detected
- Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
Remote Freedom measures observable location flexibility only. Unknown work-location information remains unscored. Timezone wording is penalized only when it appears restrictive; general collaboration across time zones is not treated as a restriction. A score does not guarantee legal work eligibility, payroll availability or visa sponsorship.
International applicant intelligence
Visa & relocation signals
Sponsorship status is shown only when the listing provides clear enough wording. Employer history or headquarters location is not used to guess an answer.
The available listing details do not contain a clear enough sponsorship statement.
The available listing details do not contain a clear enough relocation statement.
Tradeoff check
What’s the catch?
These are visible conditions worth checking before treating the headline compensation as the whole story:
- The role may involve non-standard hours or on-call work.
- This is remote work with a geographic restriction, not a worldwide-remote vacancy.
Current alternatives
Better-paying alternatives
These current roles show a materially higher annualized salary midpoint in the same broad occupation and currency. Similar seniority, country, work arrangement, employment type and recency are preferred where possible; higher pay alone does not make an alternative a better fit.
Senior Software Engineer, Storage
Reddit · USA
Region-restricted remoteWhy comparable: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work-location arrangement
Staff Software Engineer - Product Security
Maven Clinic · USA
Region-restricted remoteWhy comparable: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work-location arrangement
Senior Software Engineer, Internal Tooling
RevenueCat · APAC, EMEA, USA
Region-restricted remoteWhy comparable: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work-location arrangement
Alternatives are drawn from the current inventory rather than presented as application recommendations. A pay difference needs to be meaningful—about 3% or more at the midpoint—and different currencies are not compared.
Application-path intelligence
What can we see about the application process?
Provider-mediated application path
The current application path comes through a publisher or aggregator. The destination may still lead to an employer-authorized hiring system, but that is not clear enough to assume.
Current destination: jobicy.com · HTTPS
Visible application steps or requirements
- A background or pre-employment screening step is explicitly mentioned.
Application effort is estimated from visible listing and source details. Optional steps are kept separate from mandatory ones, and the external form may contain additional requirements that are not visible here.
Application safety context
Application safety check
Basic application-safety context available
The current application destination has a basic transport-safety signal such as HTTPS. This does not verify the employer, vacancy, recruiter or application process.
Evidence checked: Source provenance · Application destination · Listing wording
Observable transport-safety signals
- The available application destination uses HTTPS.
Before you share money or sensitive information
- Confirm the vacancy on the employer’s official careers site when practical, especially if a recruiter contacts you outside the listed application path.
- Check that recruiter email domains and application destinations are consistent with the employer or an identifiable recruiting provider.
- Do not pay application, processing, training or equipment fees merely to be considered for a job.
- Do not send cryptocurrency, gift cards, online-banking credentials or PINs as part of an application.
- Treat unusually fast offers or interviews conducted only through informal messaging channels as reasons to verify the employer independently.
This is a limited safety screen, not employer verification and not a fraud determination. Never send money, cryptocurrency, passwords or sensitive banking credentials merely because a listing appears on a job platform.
Original listing details
The section below comes from the listing source. The decision sections above use the job’s structured pay, location, qualification, mobility and application details to give you additional context.
Hi, I'm Manu, Engineering Manager at Customer.io. We're looking for experienced backend engineers who want to build and own the infrastructure that powers one of the most data-intensive platforms in marketing automation — systems that process millions of events per second, orchestrate complex workflows at scale, and keep everything running reliably for thousands of customers worldwide.
You'll work on the Platform team, tackling hard distributed systems problems: designing for fault tolerance, scaling services under real production pressure, and building the foundational layers that every other team at Customer.io depends on. This isn't just maintenance work — you'll shape the architecture of systems that need to be both highly available and constantly evolving.
If you're someone who gets energized by the intersection of scale, reliability, and developer experience — and wants ownership over infrastructure that truly matters — we'd love to talk.
What you'll bring:
- Deep experience with distributed systems and large-scale backend architecture
- Strong instincts around reliability, observability, and fault tolerance
- Comfort reasoning about performance, capacity, and trade-offs at scale
- Experience with event-driven systems, message queues, or data pipelines is a plus
- A collaborative mindset — you raise the team around you
About Customer.io
Over 9,000 companies - from scrappy startups to global brands - use our platform to send billions of emails, push notifications, in-app messages, and SMS every day. Customer.io powers automated communication that people actually want to receive.
We help teams send smarter, more relevant messages using real-time behavioral data. Under the hood: Go, React, Ember and AI help us ship fast and scale with confidence.
What We Value
Ownership
You drive technical direction across systems and teams. You move with urgency, build with empathy, and think long-term. You’ve led large-scale infrastructure initiatives and know what it takes to get them over the line.
Engineers with customer focus
You think about how infrastructure unlocks customer value. You care about developer experience, system design, and how your work shapes the customer experience.
A healthy disregard for “the way things are done”
You bring rigor and creativity. Best practices matter, but never more than forward motion.
What You’ll Do
- Design and evolve distributed systems in Go to handle billions of daily events and messages and store and index petabytes of data
- Lead architectural decisions around performance, reliability, and real-time event processing
- Improve service-to-service communication through better APIs, messaging systems, and event-driven patterns
- Work across teams to uncover bottlenecks and system issues, and lead initiatives to resolve them for a smoother customer experience
- Tackle high-throughput challenges across data pipelines, queues, and scheduling infrastructure
- Able to debug production systems at scale using effective instrumentation, and resolve issues quickly and confidently
- Participate in an on-call rotation as required, supporting the reliability of the systems you build
- Share knowledge and raise the bar through sharing your progress publicly with short videos, thoughtful writing, and mentorship
- Leverage AI tools to prototype, move faster, and make better decisions
What we're looking for
- Significant experience (typically 10+ years) building scalable, distributed systems in Go (or similar statically typed languages)
- Deep experience with databases - relational (MySQL, Postgres) and non-relational (DynamoDB, BigTable) - and how to make them fast
- Comfort working in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP)
- Familiarity with APIs, observability, and operating production systems
- A bias for action over perfection, and pride in owning technical decisions
Compensation & Benefits
We believe in transparency. Starting salary for this role is $150,000 - $200,000 USD (or equivalent in local currency) depending on experience and subject to market rate adjustment. In addition to base salary, this role includes an equity grant in the form of stock options, so you share in the success you help build.
We know our people are what make us great, and we’re committed to taking great care of them. Our inclusive benefits package supports your well-being and growth, including 100% coverage of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and supplemental insurance premiums for you and your family. We also offer 16 weeks paid parental leave, unlimited PTO, stipends for remote work and wellness, a professional development budget, and more.
Our Process
No gotchas, no trick questions - just a clear, human process designed to help both of us make an informed decision.
- Application - We review everyone with care. Tell us why you're interested.
- Recruiter Call (30 mins) - Let’s chat about what you’re looking for and how we work.
- Hiring Manager Interview (60 mins) - Talk with one of our hiring managers about your working style and a project you've owned end-to-end, plus a short AI-assisted coding exercise.
- System Design Interview (60 mins) - A collaborative system design conversation focused on scaling challenges.
- Coding Interview (60 mins) - Pair with one of our engineers for an agentic live coding interview.
All final candidates will be asked to complete a background check and employment verifications as part of our pre-employment process.
Customer.io recognizes the stifling impact of systemic injustice on diverse communities. We commit to using our influence to increase inclusion and equity within the tech industry. We strive to build an inclusive team culture, implement bias-free hiring practices, and develop community partnerships to expand our global impact.
Zoom is the only video conference platform that we use, virtual interviews will be conducted using the video capability (i.e., not via the chat), and offers will be extended in writing on official Customer.io letterhead. Please be vigilant in all of your job search activity, and if you have any questions please contact jobs@customer.io.
Join us!
We believe in empathy, transparency, responsibility, and, yes, a little awkwardness. If you’re excited by what you read and want to build software that makes communication better for everyone—apply now.
Listing provenance
Where did this job come from?
See where this vacancy came from and whether more than one current source can still support it. Source names help with traceability and attribution; they are not endorsements or guarantees.
At least one enabled source recently observed the vacancy. The source chain is traceable, but this is not independent employer verification.
- Continuity
- One recent renewable source
- Source-class independence
- One renewable source class
- Last source observation
- Observed very recently
This records when High Paid Job last observed the vacancy in source evidence. It confirms source presence, not that the employer edited the vacancy at that time.
- 1 enabled source recently observed this vacancy.
Source confidence is about traceability and continuity. It is separate from application safety and should not be read as an employer reputation rating.
The vacancy is supplied by an external job publisher. Source information helps show where the listing came from; it is not a guarantee about the employer or vacancy.
Listing source: Jobicy. Destination: jobicy.com. The application opens in a new tab so you can keep this report open.