Senior Backend Engineer, Prefect Cloud

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Own meaningful distributed systems in Prefect Cloud: orchestration, APIs, data paths and services that keep the platform reliable at scale
• ▹Apply query-engine and data-processing expertise to how work is planned, executed, partitioned, moved and observed across the platform
• ▹Bring strong technical judgment to ambiguous problems, including when to prototype and when to harden
• ▹Work directly from product and customer context, shaping problems in an environment without a dedicated PM for every project
• ▹Use AI-powered development tools effectively in planning, implementation, review and testing
• ▹Lead operationally mature work: write maintainable code, build for reliability, participate in on-call and incident response
• ▹Raise the technical bar through design feedback, code review and mentoring

Requirements

• ▹Senior-level back-end or systems engineering experience with a record of owning large-scale distributed systems in production
• ▹Meaningful experience designing, building or materially extending a query engine, analytical database, streaming system or distributed data-processing runtime (e.g. DataFusion, ClickHouse, Trino, Presto, DuckDB, Velox, Spark, Flink, Materialize)
• ▹Strong computer-science and distributed-systems fundamentals: concurrency, consistency, performance, reliability, failure

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Remote-first team

About the company

Prefect builds and operates resilient, Pythonic orchestration and MCP platforms (Prefect OSS, Prefect Cloud, FastMCP OSS, Horizon) for mission-critical workloads, as a remote-first company partnering with Fortune 500 companies and data innovators.