Backend Engineer - Platform

At Tinybird, we help developers and data teams take flight by unlocking the power of real-time data to quickly build data pipelines and innovative data products. With Tinybird, you can effortlessly ingest multiple data sources at scale, query and shape it using the 100% pure SQL you already know and love, and publish results as low-latency, high-concurrency APIs for your applications to chirp about. Developers can create fast APIs, faster—what used to take hours and days now only takes minutes! Tinybird is the essential tool that data engineers and software developers have been waiting for enabling you to drive innovation with ease.

We are looking for a highly experienced Backend Engineer who enjoys building and operating complex systems.

You might be a good fit if:

• You have strong experience building backend services, distributed systems, infrastructure components, or high-volume production systems.
• You are highly proficient in Python. This is a must for this role.
• You are comfortable working close to production: debugging incidents, understanding system behavior, improving observability, and making services more reliable.
• You enjoy solving low-level and systemic problems, not only shipping new features.
• You care about performance, reliability, cost efficiency, and operational simplicity.
• You are pragmatic: you can move fast when needed, but you know when stability, safety, and maintainability matter more.
• You take ownership, follow through, and make progress even when things are not fully defined.
• You like data and SQL, and you are curious about how real-time analytical systems work.
• You communicate clearly in writing. This matters because we work asynchronously, document decisions, write operational notes, and share context across teams.
• You use AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, or others to move faster, stay unblocked, and improve the way you work.
• You are fluent in English and Spanish. English is the main language we use at Tinybird, and Spanish is the day-to-day language of the Platform team.
• You are willing to participate in on-call rotations, not only to keep the service healthy, but also to understand the real problems our customers and internal teams face.

We try to simplify the process as much as we can, and we don't like to extend it with any candidate more than necessary. As candidate, you're recruitment process will look like this: