Senior Backend Engineer
dossMillbrae (CA)
About the role
About Doss
DOSS is building an Operations Cloud for the real world.
A modern, AI-native platform for physical product businesses to manage the flow of goods, dollars, and data in real time, across: Procurement InventoryOrdersFulfillmentFinanceBuilt to replace spreadsheet chaos and rigid, consultant-heavy ERPs. Fast time-to-value, adaptable as the business evolves. Through our Adaptive Resource Platform (ARP) and unified operational data model, teams deploy quickly, automate workflows, and make changes without months of re-implementation. We recently raised a $55M Series B, co-led by Madrona and Premji Invest. Participation from Intuit Ventures, Theory Ventures, General Catalyst, Contrary Capital, and Pathlight VC.DOSS is trusted by fast-growing operators to run critical operations with speed, control, and confidence.
About the Role
What You'll do:
- Design the core EAV data model & schema-as-code platformthat powers every customer's instance, balancing extreme flexibility with transactional integrity.
- Build a Git-style version-control + migration enginecapable of rolling forward/back complex schema and data changes on live production tenants in enterprise settings.
- Engineer AI-assisted toolingthat uses foundation models to propose, validate, and apply new customer schemas and workflow definitions.
- Scale our white-labeled data warehouse(BigQuery/Snowflake-like) for high-volume, low-latency analytics and automation workloads.
- Create Terraform-like declarative APIs & SDKsso ops teams can treat business processes as code while you ensure security, tenancy, and performance.
- Deliver end-to-end observability & searchacross supply-chain, finance, and ops data—surfacing business logic in plain language through AI-native search.
- Build Enterprise guard railsinto a composable system to proactively detect anomalous behavior or risky emergent patterns
- Mentor and shape engineering culture, partnering with product and design to turn unsexy back‑office pain into elegant, resilient systems loved by operators.
What We're Looking For:
Experience Expertise building large scale ETL on databases like Postgres, Elasticsearch, DuckDB, Memgraph (Graph DB), etc Using cloud services to build + deploy reliable web applications Working in abstractions to build complex graph-based architectures that scale QualitiesTeam player: you bring positivity, openness, and curiosity to the team every day. Growth mindset: everything is an opportunity to learn and improve yourself, the team, and the company. Craftsmanship: you care about making something of quality. Pragmatic: you make the right decision based on circumstance, not theory. Low Ego: you work best in collaborative environments where everyone supports the team.
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