• We’re looking for Staff Software Engineers. You’ll join our Chat or Activity Feeds team and own backend systems that thousands of developers build their products on, from how they’re structured to how they scale
• This is an individual contributor role, and you’ll write code and touch databases yourself. Our leads spend about 80% of their time hands-on too
• What makes this role exciting:
• Scale: more than 1 billion end users and billions of API requests a month go through the systems you’ll own
• Impact: cost per message and query latency show up directly in our margins and in the apps of customers like Strava and Patreon
• Stack: Go, gRPC, RocksDB and Python; PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ; GCP and Kubernetes; Grafana, Prometheus, ELK (Elasticsearch and Kibana), Jaeger and Tempo for distributed tracing, and Datadog; Redis, Valkey and Memcached
• Starting point: you’ll ship to production in your first weeks and own a meaningful area within your first months

Benefits

• Equipment & Resources: Computers, standing desks, headphones, and other specialized tools are available for you to be successful
• Paid Vacation: Generous time off on top of observing several national holidays
• Stock Options: You get a piece of ownership in Stream. Stock options are granted to all full-time employees
• Health Coverage: We offer comprehensive healthcare, dental, and vision plans, plus generous parental leave (US only)
• Outings and parties: We like to have fun together! Team outings and parties are regular events around here
• Team Lunch and Snacks: Stream provides in-office daily team lunches and a stocked kitchen with tasty snacks and craft coffee
• 401k: Plan for your retirement through the company offered 401k (US only) or the local pension scheme in Amsterdam, to which Stream will make a contribution
• Commuter Benefits: Employees receive free Office parking and transportation benefits
• Monthly fitness stipend: We value the health and well being of our employees

• We’re also hiring Senior Engineers on these teams. If your experience fits Senior better than Staff, we’ll say so openly and talk it through with you
• You’ve built backend systems at high scale and stayed long enough to live with your own decisions, good and bad. You care about how a system is structured, not only the next feature, and you can explain your trade-offs to the people who’ll live with them. Maybe you led a team for a few years and chose to go back to hands-on work
• Extensive backend engineering experience, including technical leadership on systems in production
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or in another backend language plus the willingness to switch to Go
• Experience building features used by a large number of users, and scaling them as usage grows
• Experience building public APIs or SDKs that other developers use
• Hands-on experience with Redis or a similar in-memory data store
• Strong experience with a relational database. We use PostgreSQL, but any relational database counts
• Good written and spoken English. It’s our working language
• Comfort with infrastructure and database work as part of your normal week, including Kubernetes
• Don’t worry if you haven’t used every tool we run. You’ll get exposure to most of them, and you’re welcome to convince us to add your favorites
• PostgreSQL in production at scale, including sharding, partitioning or large migrations
• Experience improving or redesigning legacy parts of a system that’s serving live traffic
• Go and gRPC in production at high request rates
• Messaging, feeds or other real-time systems, or message queues such as RabbitMQ or Kafka
• Distributed storage internals, such as Raft or RocksDB
• You’ve cut infrastructure cost at a company where margins mattered
• Experience running workloads on GCP or AWS