Staff Software Engineer – Backend at Sleeper

You're a Staff Software Engineer with at least 7 years of backend experience, including tech lead roles, and you've proven yourself in scaling distributed systems for millions of real-time users. **What makes it worth a look...** This is a full-time, hybrid role based in San Francisco with Sleeper. They are offering a competitive salary of $225,000–$300,000 per year, plus equity. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have deep knowledge of databases (SQL, NoSQL), caching, and message queues like Kafka or RabbitMQ. * Are comfortable designing and maintaining RESTful or GraphQL APIs and data models. * Possess cloud experience with AWS, GCP, or similar, ideally with Docker and Kubernetes. * Have strong proficiency in backend languages such as Go, Python, Node.js, or Java.