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# Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs (SRE Focus) at Fingerprint

- **Company:** Fingerprint
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://fingerprint.com/careers/jobs/apply/?gh_jid=6143257004

## Job description

Fingerprint empowers enterprises to detect and stop online fraud with the world’s most accurate device intelligence.  We lead our industry with bleeding-edge identification capabilities and work on turning new ideas and discoveries in the fraud detection space into reality. Our customers range from innovative startups to leading enterprise companies, including Plaid, Dropbox, and Booking.com.

Fingerprint is a globally dispersed, 100% remote company. We were named on on the 2026 Forbes Best Startup Employers list and ranked #803 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies.

[We have raised $77M](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fingerprintjs)and are backed by Craft Ventures ([Tesla,](https://www.tesla.com/)[Facebook,](https://facebook.com/)[Airbnb](https://www.airbnb.com/)), Nexus Venture Partners ( [Postman](https://www.postman.com/), [Apollo.io,](https://www.apollo.io/) [MinIO](https://min.io/), Druva) and Uncorrelated Ventures ( [Redis,](https://redis.io/)[Rollbar,](https://rollbar.com/)[Gradle](https://gradle.org/)).

Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs (SRE Focus)

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to help build and operate the end-to-end fraud detection systems behind our Core APIs. Your primary responsibility will be building highly performant backend systems and keeping them reliable at scale. This is a hybrid backend/SRE role: you'll write the services and you'll own how they behave in production.

This role requires strong experience in backend software development, particularly API development and scaling existing systems in both Go and Node.js, paired with a genuine interest in reliability engineering. You'll design and implement scalable, high-performance backend systems, maintain their SLOs, and take ownership of features from concept through deployment and steady-state operation.

A key aspect of this role involves a deep understanding of scaling and operating distributed systems, allowing us to multiply our capacity safely and efficiently as our user base continues to grow rapidly.

What you'll do:

- Design, develop, and optimize backend systems for real-time data processing and web services, with reliability, latency, and cost as first-class design constraints.
- Define and own SLIs and SLOs for Core API services, and use error budgets to make concrete tradeoffs between shipping velocity and stability.
- Build and maintain the observability that makes these systems debuggable: Meaningful metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing, and alerts that fire on user-visible symptoms rather than noise.
- Participate in a shared on-call rotation, act as an effective responder during incidents, and lead blameless postmortems. The schedule will be communicated in advance, and we strive to balance coverage equitably while minimizing off-hours disruptions.
- Drive down operational toil by automating recurring manual work, and close the loop on incident action items so the same failure doesn't happen twice.
- Conduct capacity planning, load testing, and performance tuning to ensure the platform scales ahead of demand.
- Conduct deep dives into problematic features, researching and analyzing their behavior to understand root causes and identify potential solutions. Develop hypotheses, run experiments, analyze results, and translate findings into actionable engineering improvements.
- Work with cross-functional teams to integrate backend components with other services, ensuring performance and scalability.
- Foster a data-driven, reliability-minded culture by sharing engineering best practices and collaborating on cross-functional projects.
- Mentor other developers, helping all team members grow in our mission, values, and abilities.

What you bring:

- 5+ years of experience in backend development, including meaningful time operating what you built in production.
- Formal SRE practice experience — error budget policies, capacity models, production readiness reviews, chaos or fault-injection testing.
- Strong, demonstrated experience in GoLang and/or Node.js with a willingness to learn.
- Strong experience in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend systems.
- Experience with building and optimizing APIs, real-time data processing systems, and microservices architectures.
- Hands-on experience running production services on containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Working fluency with observability tooling such as Datadog or comparable monitoring, logging, and tracing platforms — including instrumenting services and building useful dashboards and alerts.
- Experience participating in an on-call rotation: triaging live incidents, mitigating impact, and writing up what happened afterward.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with databases like DynamoDB, Redis, or Elasticsearch.
- Proficiency with general software engineering tools: Git, IDEs, shell scripting, CI/CD.
- Proficient in English for clear communication in a global, remote team.
- Ability to work independently on tasks while effectively collaborating as a team member.
- A strong desire to mentor and grow junior team members.

Nice to Have:

- BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Practical experience with analytical storage systems like ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks.
- Experience with performance profiling and cost optimization of high-throughput cloud workloads.
- Experience working with large open-source projects to address the needs of a wide variety of stakeholders, and demonstrated ability to work and communicate asynchronously across a world-wide team.
- Demonstrated experience with both Node.js and Go in a backend context.
- Excellent understanding of Internet security & privacy mechanisms.

Tools and Technologies:

- Backend development: Golang and NodeJS (Preferred), TypeScript, Express or equivalent.
- Infrastructure and delivery: AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines.
- Observability: Datadog, metrics/logging/tracing.
- Data analytics/processing: ClickHouse, dbt.

## Compensation Range

For US-based employees, the cash compensation range for this role is $150,000 – $200,000. We set standard ranges for all US roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. To comply with local legislation and provide greater transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. However, these ranges are specific to the hiring location and may differ within or outside the US. Due to regulatory and security reasons, there’s a small number of countries where we cannot have Fingerprint teammates based. Additionally, because Fingerprint is an all-remote company and people can join our workforce from almost any country, we do not sponsor visas. Fingerprint teammates need to be authorized to work from their home location.

We are dedicated to creating an inclusive work environment for everyone. We embrace and celebrate the unique experiences, perspectives and cultural backgrounds that each employee brings to our workplace. Fingerprint strives to foster an environment where our employees feel respected, valued and empowered, and our team members are at the forefront in helping us promote and sustain an inclusive workplace. We highly encourage people from underrepresented groups in tech to apply.

If you are applying as a resident of California, please read our CCPA notice [here](https://dev.fingerprint.com/docs/dpa-ccpa).

If you are applying as a resident of the EU, please read our GDPR notice [here.](https://dev.fingerprint.com/docs/dpa-gdpr)

**We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Fingerprint recruiting email communications will always come from the @fingerprint.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Fingerprint via other sources should be ignored.

## About Fingerprint

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Fingerprint provides a device intelligence platform that helps businesses detect and prevent online fraud by identifying every web visitor and mobile device with industry-leading accuracy.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, IL, USA
- **Founded**: 2012 (as open-source FingerprintJS); SaaS product launched 2019; renamed Fingerprint in 2022
- **Founders**: Dan Pinto (CEO & Co-founder), Valentin Vasilyev (CTO & Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity / Fraud Detection / Device Intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B – developers, product teams, and security teams at companies of all sizes (from solo developers to publicly traded enterprises)
- **Mission**: “Power a safe and seamless internet through device intelligence.” [fingerprint.com/about-us](https://fingerprint.com/about-us/)
- **Vision**: “Provide the most accurate, insightful device intelligence signals to reduce fraudulent transactions, strengthen account security, and enhance user experience.” [fingerprint.com/about-us](https://fingerprint.com/about-us/)

## Products & Services
- **[Fingerprint Device Intelligence Platform](https://fingerprint.com/)**: A SaaS API that identifies anonymous visitors with 100+ smart signals, enabling bot detection, payment fraud prevention, and account security. Processes real-time device intelligence events at scale.
- **[FingerprintJS (Open Source)](https://fingerprint.com/)**: The original browser fingerprinting library on GitHub (20K+ stars), with 5.5 million monthly downloads. Used by developers to generate a unique visitor identifier.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Total Funding**: $77M raised across four rounds (Seed $4M, Series A $8M, Series B $32M, Series C $33M). [fingerprint.com/about-us](https://fingerprint.com/about-us/)
- **Key Metric**: 7 billion+ unique browsers and mobile devices identified annually; $1 billion+ in fraud losses prevented in the last 12 months. [fingerprint.com](https://fingerprint.com/)
- **Notable Investors**: Craft Ventures (previously invested in Tesla, Facebook, Airbnb), Nexus VP (Postman, Hasura), Uncorrelated Ventures (Redis, Rollbar, Gradle). [fingerprint.com/about-us](https://fingerprint.com/about-us/)
- **Trusted by**: 6,000+ companies, including large enterprises and fast-growing startups. [fingerprint.com](https://fingerprint.com/)
- **Growth Signals**: ISO 27001 certified (2023), SOC 2 Type II certified (2022), recognized as a Fortune Best Workplace in Chicago (2023 #8, 2024 #4). [fingerprint.com/about-us](https://fingerprint.com/about-us/) | [greatplacetowork.com](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7049110)

## Competitive Advantages
- **World’s most accurate device identifier** – Continuously refined through a dedicated research team, achieving industry-leading accuracy even when users employ VPNs, incognito mode, or tampered browsers.
- **Open-source heritage** – The FingerprintJS library has a massive developer community (20K GitHub stars, 5.5M monthly downloads), creating strong brand recognition and trust.
- **Comprehensive signal collection** – 100+ smart attributes (bleeding-edge attributes) provide deep insight into visitor risk without relying on cookies or PII.
- **Certifications & compliance** – ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II demonstrate a mature security posture, critical for enterprise adoption.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand device intelligence use cases** – Beyond fraud prevention, the platform is used for bot detection, account security, and improving user experience for legitimate visitors.
- **Deepen developer-first approach** – Continue investing in APIs, SDKs, and documentation to make integration seamless for developers.
- **Global scale** – With a fully remote, globally distributed team, Fingerprint aims to serve customers across all time zones and regions.

## Why Work Here
- **100% remote-first** – Asynchronous work, respect for time zones, and the freedom to choose where you work. The team spans 24+ countries. [fingerprint.com/careers](https://fingerprint.com/careers/)
- **Strong culture & values** – “Be level 5 helpful,” “Fail. Learn. Grow.,” “No Nonsense,” and “Don’t take yourself too seriously.” 97% of employees say it’s a great place to work (Great Place to Work® certified). [greatplacetowork.com](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7049110)
- **Perks** – Competitive salary and equity, $600 yearly learning budget, MacBook (yours to keep after 4 years), flexible time off with a minimum vacation target, annual company meetup (e.g., Mexico City 2023). [fingerprint.com/careers](https://fingerprint.com/careers/)
- **Impact & growth** – Small, lean team where employees can shape the culture and make a real impact. Open-source contributions encouraged.
- **Recognition** – Fortune Best Workplaces in Chicago (2023, 2024), reflecting high employee satisfaction.

## Sources
1. [fingerprint.com](https://fingerprint.com/)
2. [fingerprint.com/about-us](https://fingerprint.com/about-us/)
3. [fingerprint.com/careers](https://fingerprint.com/careers/)
4. [fingerprint.com/careers/jobs](https://fingerprint.com/careers/jobs/)
5. [greatplacetowork.com](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7049110)

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