Senior Software Engineer Backend, Database

Squarespace Dublin is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for our Databases team within Infrastructure Foundations. This is a critical role responsible for ensuring Squarespace's infrastructure operates seamlessly and reliably for our product engineering stakeholders and millions of customers. You'll maintain key backend infrastructure powering the Squarespace platform and build automation + tooling to help scale our infrastructure.

Focusing on developing against our backend tech stack composed of components such as MongoDB, CockroachDB, and Kafka, you'll be responsible for designing, architecting, and provisioning new infrastructure to help unlock new product functionality. The job is hybrid in our Dublin Office: 3 days in the office, 2 days from home.

You will report to the Databases Engineering Team Manager. You’ll Get To… • Develop automation that interacts with our infrastructure in the GCP cloud. • Drive performance improvements and enhance scalability for infrastructure in components like MongoDB, CockroachDB, and Kafka. • Collaborate with engineering teams across all of SQSP on building new services that scale for the future. • Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence and professional development by participating in technical design reviews and mentoring junior team members. • Work in: MongoDB, CockroachDB, and Kafka to name a few of our most commonly used infra components.