Noise exists because culture should be shaped by the people who care about it. We're building a platform where curators and communities surface and value the trends becoming relevant around the world.
We're a team of 10 based in SoHo, New York. We look for people with great taste who can ship code, design or convey user needs into delightful products.
DUTIES
- Architect and build backend services and APIs able to handle large-scale traffic and real-time data.
- Design distributed systems: microservices, message queues, caching, orchestration, Kubernetes & cloud infrastructure.
- Ensure system scale, performance, reliability, security, and observability (monitoring, logging, alerting).
- Collaborate across product, front-end, and infrastructure teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Define and drive best practices for code quality, deployment, infrastructure, and system operations.
REQUIREMENTS
- 3 years of experience as a Software Engineer or similar position in backend (or full-stack) development.
- Experience with
- Reactive Architecture principles (CQRS, event sourcing);
- backend services in Rust;
- streaming data pipelines in Scala;
- batch data processing in Python;
- API microservices in Typescript;
- DDL and DML SQL statements;
- analytical SQL queries (window functions, deduplication, CTE, JSON);
- push-based CDC in Postgres (logical replication);
- queries for sub-millisecond latency over multi-million row Postgres table;
- Postgres internals (WAL, TOAST, EXPLAIN);
- infrastructure as code using Terraform;
- deployments using Kubernetes;
- Postgres installations on AWS RDS;
- developer environments using Nix;
- Tokio, Axum, SQLx;
- Flink, Kafka;
- Pandas, Numpy, Scipy;
- Node.js, REST, gRPC;
- asynchronous programming (multiprocessing, multithreading, green threads);
- synchronization primitives (channels, mutexes, semaphores);
- BDD, TDD, unit, integration testing, data QA;
- Postgres dialect of SQL;
- deploying to AWS;
- writing Nixpkgs modules.
Minimum full-time salary of $180,000. Disclosure in accordance with New York City's Pay Transparency Law. Full Time employees at Noise Labs are also eligible for other
compensation
elements, including equity and