Staff Platform / Backend Engineer Contractor

Staff Platform / Backend Engineer Contractor

What You'll Do

Gabb is seeking an exceptional Staff Platform Engineer to serve as a technical leader who will be at the forefront of our company's technology and execution in keeping kids safe. As a Staff Platform / Backend Engineer at Gabb, you will architect, develop, and maintain highly resilient backend services and platforms that operate with 24 / 7 uptimebecause keeping kids safe cannot tolerate outages. You will drive technical excellence across teams, establishing and maintaining rigorous standards for high availability, scalability, and system reliability. This role requires someone who thinks holistically about the customer experience and can execute large-scale initiatives that directly fulfill the needs of families relying on Gabb's safe technology. You will be responsible for transforming systems that struggle with resiliency, uptime, or scalability into highly scalable, bulletproof architectures as quickly as possible. Your technical leadership will elevate engineering teams around you to consistently meet the highest standards of quality and reliability.

Additionally, you will :

• Architect and implement consumer-facing, high-scale, high-availability systems with 99.9%+ uptime requirements
• Establish and maintain rigorous SLOs and SLAs, achieving them through quality architecture, comprehensive testing, monitoring, and proactive observability
• Design resilient system architectures including event-driven systems, microservices, and modular monolithic patterns with intelligent failover and recovery mechanisms
• Lead cross-functional technical discussions and communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Drive technical strategy for API gateways, caching layers, and service contracts that ensure system reliability and performance
• Mentor and elevate engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and customer-first thinking
• Proactively identify and resolve scalability bottlenecks before they impact our families
• Own end-to-end delivery of large-scope technical initiatives alongside engineering teams
• Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability practices that prevent issues before they occur

What you'll need

What will really impress us :

This is a contractor role for Gabb. As such we are open to remote candidates.

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