Senior Backend Engineer

About The Position

WEKA is architecting a new approach to the enterprise data stack built for the AI era. The WEKA® Data Platform sets the standard for AI infrastructure with a cloud and AI-native software solution that can be deployed anywhere. It transforms legacy data silos into data pipelines that make GPUs, AI, and other performance-intensive workloads run faster, work more efficiently, and consume less energy. WEKA is a pre-IPO, growth-stage company on a hyper-growth trajectory. We’ve raised $375M in capital with dozens of world-class venture capital and strategic investors. We help the world’s most innovative enterprises and research organizations, including 12 Fortune 50, reach discoveries, insights, and outcomes faster and more sustainably. We’re passionate about helping our customers overcome complex data challenges to accelerate their innovation and help grow their businesses. We invite you to join us on this exciting journey if you share our passion.

Weka is looking for a motivated and experienced backend engineer with deep knowledge of systems, web applications, and observability stack,

As a backend engineer, you will build and maintain Weka web applications and contribute to the development of Weka’s observability system.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly scalable web applications with performance, reliability, and observability in mind.

• Drive the development of Weka’s observability platform at scale—ensuring we gather meaningful metrics, logs, traces, and act on them.

• Lead by example: conduct thorough code & architecture reviews—not only of your own code but also with peers—to ensure maintainability, consistency, and high standards.

• Champion best practices in development processes: share knowledge, improve coding standards, automate where possible, and mentor others.

• Partner closely with product, UX, and cross-functional teams to deliver features from conception through to production—ensuring quality, timeliness, and user value.

• Actively participate in on-call, incident response, post-mortems, and proactively identify reliability or performance bottlenecks.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer building production services for large or distributed systems (web, microservices, observability, etc.).

• Strong experience in Go (Golang)—you are comfortable building services, understanding memory/Go-routines, performance tuning, etc.

• Solid experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.), including deploying, monitoring, and scaling services in that cloud.

• Deep understanding of containerization and orchestration tools—especially Kubernetes—and familiarity with observability tooling (metrics, logs, traces). Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, or similar are a plus.

• Experience with relational databases—PostgreSQL preferred—and messaging or queuing systems (e.g., NATS, Kafka, or equivalent).

• Strong problem solving and debugging skills in production environments (including tracing issues, performance chokepoints, etc.).

• Excellent English communication (verbal & written), ability to collaborate across teams, and mentor junior engineers.

How We Work: The WEKA Way

• We are Accountable: We take full ownership, always–even when things don’t go as planned. We lead with integrity, show up with responsibility & ownership, and hold ourselves and each other to the highest standards.

• We are Brave: We question the status quo, push boundaries, and take smart risks when needed. We welcome challenges and embrace debates as opportunities for growth, turning courage into fuel for innovation.

• We are Collaborative: True collaboration isn’t only about working together. It’s about lifting one another up to succeed collectively. We are team-oriented and we communicate with empathy and respect. We challenge each other and conduct positive conflict resolution. We are being transparent about our goals and the results we achieve. Together, we’re unstoppable.

• We are Customer Centric: Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. We actively listen and prioritize the success of our customers, and every decision we make is driven by how we can better serve, support, and empower them to succeed. When our customers win, we win.

Concerned you don’t meet every qualification? Don’t let it stop you from applying!
Studies have shown that traditionally underrepresented groups may be less likely to apply for jobs if they don’t meet every qualification specified. WEKA is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you are excited about this position but are concerned your past work experience doesn’t match up perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway – you may be just the right candidate for this or other roles at WEKA.

WEKA is an equal opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.