Senior Member of Technical Staff - Backend

About the role: Member of Technical Staff, Backend

In order to build agentic applications, we need to be able to ingest, index and serve large volumes of data, enable agents and automations to fetch, reason, process user and system events as well as analyze and aggregate the data to unlock intelligence. All this, while giving full control to customers to customize and model their business on top of DevRev.

We are looking for experienced engineers who are passionate about building fast, reliable and personalizable platforms and can help us solve the above challenges.

What Youll Do

• Lead engineering design of scalable distributed systems solving ambiguity, driving clarity and taking ownership.


• Mentor engineers to solve and deliver complex scalability, performance, and multi-tenancy challenges.


• Drive technical excellence: distributed systems best practices, API-first design , CI/CD for high deployment velocity to ensure reliability.


• Ensure operational excellence and build quality.


• Work with different stakeholders across engineering, product, sales, marketing, customer success to learn customer and market demand, incorporate and innovate on the needs, and educate and enable teams to drive alignment and clarity.

What Youll Need:

• 5 + years software engineering experience in large-scale distributed systems.


• Expertise in defining clean interfaces that can be built up on.


• Experience working with message buses (Kafka preferred), queues, databases, and multi-tenant SaaS architectures.


• Proficiency in Go (preferred), Java, or Python.


• Skills in cloud-native tech: Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless functions.


• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.


• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely.


• BS/MS in CS or related.

Bonus Points :

• Proven ability in deep performance analysis, tuning, and optimization for high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.


• Familiarity or experience with building GenAI agentic reasoning engines that leverage memory, skills, and tools for complex task completion.