Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Reliability

Job title: Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Reliability

About the Role Gamma's infrastructure needs to be rock-solid for millions of daily users while enabling our engineering teams to ship fast. You'll own the operational health of our full backend platform, building automation and tooling that improves reliability and partnering with engineering to design systems that are observable, resilient, and easy to operate. Your work directly impacts every Gamma user's experience.

This is a high-impact role where you'll balance reliability with velocity, knowing when to move fast and when to prioritize stability. You'll lead incident response, drive systemic improvements, and help shape how Gamma scales to serve its next 100 million users.

Our team has a strong in-office culture and works in person 4–5 days per week in San Francisco. We love working together to stay creative and connected, with flexibility to work from home when focus matters most.

What You'll Do

• Own the operational health of Gamma's full backend platform, building automation and tooling to improve reliability and partnering with engineering to design observable, resilient, and easy-to-operate systems.
• Lead incident response, drive systemic improvements, and help shape how Gamma scales to serve its next 100 million users.
• Balance reliability with velocity, deciding when to move fast vs when to prioritize stability.
• Collaborate with a small, in-office team and contribute to a culture of creativity and focus.

What We're Looking For

• Experience owning backend platform reliability, incident response, and systems design.
• Strong experience with TypeScript stack (frontend/backend) and modern tooling.
• Ability to build automation, observability, and tooling to improve operational health.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-scale environment and collaborate with engineers.

Compensation & Benefits Base salary range: $230,000 - $310,000 USD per year, plus benefits and equity. In-office 4–5 days per week with flexibility to work from home when needed.