Software Engineer, Backend (Python)

About the role

Plane keeps live work state in sync across thousands of workspaces, including self-hosted clusters we will never see, and that machinery now has to carry agents that read and change state at machine speed. You will work across the Django services behind projects, cycles, issues, and permissions, the event streams and change data capture that push state out to every client, and the caching and query paths that keep a large workspace fast.

What you'll do

• Own backend surfaces end to end, from API contract and data model through migration and rollout
• Extend the real-time sync path alongside the engineers who designed it: event streams, change data capture, and the caching in front of them
• Measure and improve query performance as workspaces grow. Query plans, indexes, and connection pooling are yours to read and fix
• Write async Python that holds up under concurrent load, and find out where it does not: blocking calls, connection limits, and cache behavior under pressure
• Instrument what you ship so that a degradation shows up in our dashboards before a customer reports it, and take your turn responding when it fires

What you need

• 1–3 years in software engineering
• Python
• SQL
• Django
• Test cases
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Node.js
• Git
• Kafka
• PostgreSQL
• AWS
• Redis