Senior Backend Engineer (Milan)

Eight Sleep
Milan
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Distributed systems","Backend engineering","Service availability","Scalability"]

Design, implement, and support distributed backend systems that power product features and scalable member experiences. Help maintain and improve a high-volume data processing pipeline, develop tools that ensure availability across ~30 microservices, and contribute to backend services and product capabilities. Work within a distributed environment bridging communications and data flows across embedded, machine learning, mobile, and business intelligence systems.

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Eight Sleep
Eight Sleep
1 week ago

Senior Backend Engineer (Milan)

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Job Summary

Design, implement, and support distributed backend systems that power product features and scalable member experiences. Help maintain and improve a high-volume data processing pipeline, develop tools that ensure availability across ~30 microservices, and contribute to backend services and product capabilities. Work within a distributed environment bridging communications and data flows across embedded, machine learning, mobile, and business intelligence systems.
Location: Milan
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Maintain and improve the integrity of a data processing pipeline (~5Tb per day).
  • •Develop tools to guarantee service availability across ~30 microservices and automate their operation.
  • •Contribute to the development of back-end services and product features.
  • •Design, implement, and support distributed systems that impact the member experience.
  • •Understand underlying system behavior to make decisions about how technology should evolve and scale.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceVisionDentalLife InsurancePaid LeavePaid ParentalCommuter Benefits

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of software engineering experience.
  • •5+ years as a backend engineer/SRE.
  • •Advanced polyglot experience with at least 2 of: Java (Scala or Kotlin), C# (or F#) (.NET core), Python, NodeJS + TypeScript.
  • •Experience with distributed systems.
  • •Deep understanding of cloud services.
Experience:8+ years
Skills:Distributed systemsBackend engineeringService availabilityScalability
Tech Stack:JavaScalaKotlinC#F#\.NET core.NET corePythonNodeJSTypeScriptMicroservicesDistributed systemsCloud 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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