Thumbtack · 19 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$250K/yr - $323K/yrThumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Backend Infrastructure team. This role focuses on improving the reliability, performance, and developer experience of Thumbtack’s backend platforms, particularly the Go backend platform, by establishing clear ownership and enhancing CI/CD workflows.
Home ServicesLocalProfessional ServicesService Industry
Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end health of Go build and verification pipelines, including performance, reliability, and flakiness reduction
Define and implement consistent, high-signal backend CI/CD failure visibility and debugging workflows
Improve local backend development and iteration workflows to shorten feedback loops and reduce reliance on staging deploys
Establish and enforce Go platform standards, ownership boundaries, and baseline documentation expectations to improve long-term codebase health
Proactively improve shared Go codebases to reduce regression risk and increase confidence when making changes
Partner with Platform Engineering and other infrastructure teams to align backend infrastructure with existing platform foundations
Act as a steward for the backend engineering community by running forums, collecting feedback, sharing progress, mentoring engineers, and reviewing code in shared areas
Qualification
Required
Experience owning and improving CI/CD systems for large, shared codebases
Strong proficiency with Go and familiarity with Go build, test, and verification workflows
Experience improving developer experience through tooling, workflow design, or platform standards
Ability to diagnose and address systemic reliability and performance issues in infrastructure systems
Experience working in shared ownership environments and establishing clear platform boundaries
Ability to operate with focused scope and deliver high-leverage improvements as an early member of a new team
Comfort working on platform-oriented problems rather than feature-oriented product work
Company
Thumbtack
Thumbtack is a home services website connecting users with local service providers.
Founded in 2008
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$773.2MKey Investors
Hercules Capital,Silicon Valley BankQatar Investment AuthoritySequoia Capital
2024-07-31Debt Financing· $75M
2021-06-15Series G· $275M
2019-07-22Series F· $150M
Leadership Team
Marco Zappacosta
Co-founder & CEO
Recent News
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