Senior Backend Engineer (Milan)

Eight Sleep
Milan, EU
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Distributed systems","Reliability","Automation","Service availability","Data processing"]

Build and scale Eight Sleep’s distributed backend systems powering the member experience. Own a high-throughput data processing pipeline (terabytes/day), improve service reliability across ~30 microservices, and develop automation to keep services available. Collaborate across embedded, machine learning, mobile, and business intelligence teams to bridge data and communications flows. You’ll design, implement, and support distributed systems while using cloud services and backend engineering expertise to drive product impact.

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Eight Sleep
Eight Sleep
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Senior Backend Engineer (Milan)

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Job Summary

Build and scale Eight Sleep’s distributed backend systems powering the member experience. Own a high-throughput data processing pipeline (terabytes/day), improve service reliability across ~30 microservices, and develop automation to keep services available. Collaborate across embedded, machine learning, mobile, and business intelligence teams to bridge data and communications flows. You’ll design, implement, and support distributed systems while using cloud services and backend engineering expertise to drive product impact.
Location: Milan, EU
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Maintain and improve the integrity of a high-throughput data processing pipeline (5Tb per day)
  • •Develop tools to guarantee service availability (~30 microservices) and automate their operation
  • •Contribute to back-end services and product feature development
  • •Design, implement, and support distributed systems for member-experience impact
  • •Bridge data/communication flows between embedded, machine learning, mobile, and business intelligence systems

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceVisionDentalLife InsurancePaid LeaveCommuter BenefitsPaid Parental

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of software engineering experience
  • •5+ years as a backend engineer/SRE
  • •Advanced experience with at least 2 of: Java (Scala or Kotlin), C# (or F#) (.NET core), Python, NodeJS + TypeScript
  • •Experience designing and working with distributed systems
  • •Deep understanding of cloud services
Experience:8+ yearsDistributed systemsMicroservicesSRECloud
Skills:Distributed systemsReliabilityAutomationService availabilityData processing
Tech Stack:JavaScalaKotlinC#F#.NET corePythonNodeJSTypeScriptMicroservicesDistributed systemsSRECloud services

Company Brief

Eight Sleep
Eight Sleep makes AI-powered sleep hardware and software (the Pod) that monitors biometrics and adjusts temperature, elevation, and sound to improve sleep and recovery for consumers and clinical applications. Recent expansion targets medical use cases and global retail. ([crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eight-sleep?utm_source=openai))
Industry: Wellness & Preventive Health
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: USD 250M to 500M
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2014
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