Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, redundant and reliable APIs and other distributed infrastructure to support Appwrite's platform services.

• Design and develop SDKs for various languages following the best coding principles and standards and ensuring a great developer experience (DX).

• Collaborate with Product Engineers to integrate infrastructure solutions seamlessly into the application architecture.

• Monitor system performance and proactively identify and address issues to maintain optimal reliability.

• Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and trends in backend, infrastructure, and cloud computing, and evaluate their potential impact on Appwrite's platform.

• Participate in code reviews, and architectural discussions to drive continuous improvement.
  

Requirements

• Experience in building and consuming REST or GraphQL APIs.

• Ability to learn and adapt to working with multiple programming languages and produce high-quality code.

• Passion for simplicity and great developer experience.

• Passion for open-source, building developer tools, and working with our developer community.

• Knowledge of container technologies like Docker, and orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.

• Experience working with Continuous Integration (CI) tools like GitHub Actions.

• Comfortable working with both monolithic and microservice-based architectures

• Experience working with backend languages like PHP, Node.js, Python, Dart, Go, or Ruby

• Solid understanding of relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL

• Familiarity with using Redis for use cases such as caching, message broker, or pub/sub

• Experience with writing and maintaining both unit and end-to-end (e2e) tests.

• Experience with cloud platforms like DigitalOcean, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.

• Ability to build reliable, performant, and scalable APIs using a microservice architecture.

• Have a solid understanding of HTTP, TCP, UDP protocols, web services, and architecture design.