Senior Backend Engineer

USA🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $220,000–$220,000🗓 2026-09-07 → 2026-09-25

Core

Develop Chaos Engineering tooling to proactively monitor, test, and enforce reliability standards for high-availability systems used by Fortune 500 organizations.

Role type

Senior IC backend engineer (chaos engineering & distributed systems)

Builds

Chaos Engineering tooling, reliability testing frameworks, and automated reliability practices

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, reliability engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Java, Go, systems-level programming, cloud technologies (AWS, Lambda, Serverless), NoSQL/relational databases, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, distributed system architecture, CI/CD, automated testing

Preferred skills

incident management/on-call experience, modern JavaScript frameworks (React, TypeScript), end-to-end feature delivery

Technologies

Java, Go, AWS, Lambda, Serverless, DynamoDB, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, React, TypeScript

Responsibilities

Design and build Chaos Engineering tooling, partner with product and business units to solve technical problems, mentor teammates, deliver new features within a remote culture

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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About Gremlin

Gremlin is a team of industry veterans and people eager to learn from one another. We set the standard for reliability and equip leading organizations with the mindset and expertise needed to drive reliability improvements that move the world forward. We’re backed by top-tier investors Index Ventures, Amplify Partners, and Redpoint Ventures. Our customers love us, and we’re thrilled to be a partner in their success.