Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)

As a Software Engineer (Distributed Systems) at Browserbase , you’ll be directly responsible for developing our core web automation platform. You’ll ensure it is high performance, scalable, constantly evolving and growing, and that our customers know they can count on it.

As a Distributed Systems Engineer at Browserbase, you will :

Build, operate, and grow the Browserbase platform. Design and develop robust, scalable distributed backend systems with developer-friendly APIs.

Work with the rest of the Engineering team daily, gathering their input and give them great support.

Help establish and reinforce best development and operational practices.

Help define, scope, and review key projects; prioritize roadmap objectives; and sequence our deliverables.

Document everything as you go and share your growing knowledge with the team.

Be based in—or willing to relocate to—San Francisco and be able to work regularly from our Union Square office.

Being responsible for our core developer platform means :

Continuously enhancing the platform to meet rapidly expanding customer adoption and demand.

Making smart choices and sound judgment calls around design decisions and implementation approaches.

Investigating, troubleshooting, and resolving any operational incidents that may arise.

Helping to ensure customer success with the platform.

To succeed in this role, you’ll need :

Experience designing, building, and running a large, complex distributed system, scale on the order of hundreds or thousands of instances.

Strong expertise coding in Go or Typescript.

Experience in streaming-based architecture.

Familiarity with CI / CD pipelines, Kubernetes and Docker, message queues, relational and NoSQL data stores, automated testing, performance optimization, and zero-downtime multi-region deployments.

Dedication to operational excellence. Expertise with observability, monitoring, alerting, and logging.

To be highly attuned to customer expectations, product deliverables, and critical deadlines.

You’re a good fit for this role if you :

Have a willingness to do whatever it takes . Bias towards action and having a process that embodies “show >

tell.”

Have a high sense of agency and accountability and can prioritize your work without much outside input.

Value taking ownership and responsibility for your projects and systems.

Excel in both written and verbal communication . You thoughtfully leverage different modes of communication that best fit what you’re trying to communicate.

Have direct experience building great products. You like to collaborate with others to implement your ideas.

Are adaptable. You’re able to immerse yourself in unfamiliar topics and understand complex technical concepts in order to make informed decisions.

Are a strong systems thinker and can understand how your decisions impact the customer experience all the way down the stack.

Love working with a great team in a fast-paced environment.

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