SDE 4 - Backend

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.