Staff Software Engineer - Content Lake DX (Scale)

Who are we?
Sanity.io is the content operating system that replaces rigid legacy CMS' so forward-leaning companies like PUMA, Spotify, Figma, Riot Games, and Skims can create standout digital experiences for their customers.
One of our big differentiators is treating content as data so it can be stored in a single source of truth but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort. Forward-thinking companies choose Sanity because they can create tailored content authoring experiences, customized workflows, and content models that reflect their business.
Backed by Netlify, Vercel, the founders of Twitter and Medium, Heroku's ex-CEO, and leading VCs like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, and Lead Edge Capital, Sanity is at the epicenter of the modern digital product development stack.
You can only build a great company with a great culture. Read about our values and join us in building a diverse and inclusive team.
About the role
As an experienced back end software engineer on the Content Lake Developer Experience team, you'll be responsible for building highly scalable, performant distributed systems providing our core content creation and querying capabilities.
You'll be solving challenging scalability problems such as how to serve millions of requests a minute whilst keeping our content up to date and fresh. This could be via experimenting and exploring how to cache more intelligently, how to optimize our search store or even write a novel indexing solution from scratch.
What you will be doing

• Drive the design and development of valuable product increments.
• Lead critical incidents responses and fix our most complex defects.
• Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence through peer-reviewing others' work, testing code, and championing our coding standards.
• Coach teammates and provide technical mentorship to level up the whole team.
• Retrospect and influence how our team works recommending product or process improvements.

This may be you

• A strong foundational knowledge and interest in computer science. This includes but is not limited to algorithms, abstract data types, data structures, complexity theory, graph theory, statistics, language parsing, and array programming. Ideally, you already have experience in database programming, information retrieval, and key/value stores.
• Have a passion for cutting edge computer science research, keeping up to date with the latest work by reading and sharing research with your team.
• Care about understanding systems in depth. Not only using databases to solve problems but also knowing how they are implemented.
• A proven track record of building and running distributed applications at scale.
• An expert in any back-end language; however, you'll be required to write in Go and some Typescript / Node.js.
• A compassionate, friendly human being who cares about and shows respect to the people you work with as well as having empathy for our users.
• Able to clearly and concisely communicate technical designs and thinking both verbally and in writing.
• Experience working at a product/SaaS company.

There are many roads leading up to being a Senior Software Engineer. Our team is already a mix of self-taught and formally educated people. Don't self-select out!
What we can offer

• A highly skilled, inspiring, and supportive team where long-term personal growth is encouraged and supported.
• Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment.
• A very global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers.
• Location: Remote in North America (East Coast/ET) or Remote in Europe.
• Comprehensive health plans and perks.
• A healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs.
• Competitive salary and stock options program.

Sanity.io pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.