Backend Engineer

Better Stack (Headquarters: Europe remote (UTC ± 3h) / Prague)

Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL Redis ClickHouse Docker ZFS Prometheus Grafana Redpanda Observability Monitoring Logging Incident Management Remote Europe API Backend Back End Engineer

Better Stack provides a radically better observability stack, helping developers ship higher-quality software faster. Founded by engineers (CEO, COO, CTO are all engineers), they build developer-first tools including log management, infrastructure monitoring, uptime monitoring, incident management, and status pages. They prioritize speed, pragmatism, and a strong engineering culture focused on shipping impactful software. The company values doing a lot with little, being nice, acting without permission, reasoning from first principles, and asynchronous collaboration.

As a Backend Engineer, you'll focus on developing, testing, and deploying secure, performant, and scalable backend systems and APIs. Responsibilities include designing database schemas, optimizing queries, building robust services, and ensuring the reliability of our observability platform using technologies like Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, Redpanda, and Docker.

We seek engineers who value speed and pragmatism, take security and performance seriously, and thrive in an environment focused on shipping impactful backend infrastructure. The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in backend development, understands distributed systems concepts, is comfortable learning quickly, and prefers async work over meetings. Writing software is your hobby, and you can take a rough idea and make it into a live app.