Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Senior Software Engineer, Backend LocationNYC, New YorkEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeRemoteDepartmentEngineeringCompensationBase Salary $183K – $237K • Offers EquityWe offer competitive compensation aligned to the New York City market, regardless where you’ll be working. Actual pay is determined by multiple factors such as skills, qualifications, experience and market demand.We built Bubble with a clear mission: to empower everyone to create software. Our AI visual development platform lets anyone, from first-time entrepreneurs to enterprise teams, take an idea from prompt to fully-functional, scalable app across web, iOS, and Android. With over 6 million users in more than 100 countries, Bubble is breaking down the barriers to entrepreneurship and innovation worldwide.Our ProductBubble is the only fully visual AI app builder that lets you vibe code without the code to go beyond prototypes and launch real apps to real users. Chat with AI when you want speed, edit directly when you want control. Bubble's visual editor lets you fine-tune any detail, from the design to privacy rules and programming logic, so you're never stuck, even if AI hits its limits. Everything you need comes built in: a unified web and native mobile editor, enterprise-grade hosting, security, database management, and automatic scaling that grows with your business.You can build just about anything on Bubble, and our community is living proof. Mailead grew a $10K investment into a $2M valuation, and Faceless.video went from zero to $1M+ ARR in under a year. People aren't just launching products on Bubble, they're building real businesses. See how Bubble builders are shipping apps that change industries, solve problems, and shape the future here: Inspiring builders, breakthrough apps.Why Join Bubble Now?The rise of AI-generated software has validated everything Bubble has been building toward for over a decade. But pure AI-generated code is fragile, hard to debug, and rarely production-ready. Bubble bridges that gap, combining the speed of AI with a structured visual platform that produces stable, scalable, secure software. The people who join Bubble right now will help define what that means for millions of builders around the world. If you've ever wanted to work on something that genuinely changes who gets to build, this is your moment.About the Platform team: Our Platform team executes on our scaling, reliability, and enablement efforts as we look to double our customer base over the next few years. Our scope includes both scalable infrastructure, and our core backend software systems. Success means delivering just-in-time capacity, running workloads quickly, and ensuring data scalability across numerous applications, while balancing costs and addressing issues like implementation and infrastructure inefficiencies.About the role:You’ll tackle challenges faced by the largest cloud providers with a small, elite team. This position offers an opportunity to be at the forefront of building a platform that is reshaping the traditional engineering stack for the entire world. Additionally, you'll help foster an inclusive, effective, and collaborative engineering culture. This role includes after-hours/on-call availability.In this role, you’ll:Implement the Bubble infrastructure that can scale to infinitely many apps of any size and complexityImprove performance and reliability across all backend services to scale our efficiency, capacity management, and data tierDesign and implement observability across core parts of the system, define and implement SLOs, and work on an observability platform that exposes performance characteristics to end usersSupport billions of requests across a platform that supports arbitrary end user applications by designing, building, and iterating on core backbone services.Build the workflow engine and scale the data tier to ensure reliability and scalability, supporting high-volume ingest, export, and workflows for diverse...