Top Engineering Jobs in Austin, TX

Lead backend engineering for a high-performance, data-intensive SaaS platform. Responsibilities include defining technical vision, designing scalable and highly available systems, executing technical projects, participating in architecture decisions, monitoring and optimizing services, improving CI/CD and infrastructure, conducting postmortems, mentoring engineers, documenting practices, and aligning with partner teams.

Build and maintain backend storefront services powering BigCommerce, extend GraphQL APIs, support AI-driven shopping capabilities, resolve production issues, improve performance and reliability, review code, and collaborate on technical designs. The role requires production backend experience, API and service communication knowledge, observability and deployment practices, automated testing, and responsible use of AI coding assistants.

Leads architecture, development, and evolution of large-scale distributed systems supporting a global commerce platform. Drives AI and GenAI integration, technical roadmaps, engineering excellence, performance, scalability, security, and reliability. Provides cross-domain technical leadership, mentors engineers, leads code reviews, collaborates with product and design teams, and builds tools and frameworks that improve engineering delivery.

Leads the design, automation, operation, and scaling of infrastructure across on-premises data centers, GCP, and AWS. Responsibilities include infrastructure as code, configuration management, networking, load balancing, DNS, monitoring, observability, distributed systems administration, documentation, technical direction, project leadership, and mentoring. The role requires deep Linux, hardware, networking, cloud, storage, backup, and Python automation expertise.

Lead the design, build, and scale of a hybrid semantic search platform on OpenSearch. Own indexing pipelines (MySQL, Kafka/RabbitMQ), integrate vector embeddings and neural search, tune relevance and ranking, ensure ultra-low latency and high availability, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call rotation.

Serves as the senior-most business systems architect and final technical authority across CRM, billing, marketing operations, revenue, and integration platforms. Defines target-state architecture, modernization and decommissioning strategies, technical roadmaps, solution designs, and build specifications. Partners with executive stakeholders, resolves cross-system design decisions, evaluates build-versus-buy choices, manages risks and tradeoffs, and maintains architecture documentation. The role supports Salesforce, Marketo, Zuora, CPQ, quote-to-cash, and order-to-revenue systems.