Partners In Performance International Pty Ltd
Senior Backend Engineer
Partners In Performance International Pty Ltd, Palo Alto, California, United States, 94306
About PIP Labs & Story
PIP Labs is the team behind Story, a purpose‑built Layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for intellectual property. With Story, creators can register IP on‑chain and set usage terms in seconds, dramatically lowering the barrier of today’s complex and antiquated IP legal systems.
By making IP programmable, Story transforms intellectual property into a transparent, decentralized, global repository where AI agents, developers, and humans alike can transact, license, and monetize IP with a simple API call.
In February 2025, we launched the Story mainnet, and our native $IP token is now listed on major global exchanges. As we grow the next era of programmable IP infrastructure, we are expanding our core engineering team and are now looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to take ownership of critical services that keep the Story protocol running.
About The Role We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who can own and maintain Story’s backend systems end to end, including the Story API, indexing pipelines, workflow orchestration services, and the supporting cloud infrastructure behind them.
This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering and infrastructure. You will primarily work on Story’s backend services in Go, but will also collaborate closely with infrastructure on deployments, cloud migrations, and system reliability. This is a high‑impact role that will immediately take on meaningful responsibilities across the Story platform.
You will join a small, highly technical team where you will have autonomy, significant ownership, and the opportunity to influence the architecture of Story’s backend as we scale.
What You’ll Do
Maintain and extend the Story API, indexing systems, and backend services
Write high‑quality Go code and improve the performance and reliability of distributed services
Support day‑to‑day infrastructure needs, including deployments, monitoring, and cloud operations
Contribute to the GCP to AWS migration and help stand up self‑hosted Temporal
Debug issues across the stack and own services from design through deployment
Collaborate with backend, infra, and protocol engineers on architecture, reviews, and best practices
Take on maintenance and optimization work left by recent team transitions and help re‑establish backend coverage for Story
Design and implement new backend systems and services from the ground up, shaping core platform capabilities as Story evolves
Who You Are
5 to 8+ years of software engineering experience, with strong backend focus
Proficiency with Go (Golang) in production environments
Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and concurrency
Hands‑on experience with AWS or other major cloud providers
Experience deploying, maintaining, and debugging production services
Ability to operate in a fast‑moving, high‑ownership startup environment
Excellent communication and collaboration skillsBased in the Bay Area and comfortable with a hybrid work model
Nice To Have
Experience with infrastructure tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, or CI/CD
Familiarity with Temporal, workflow systems, or distributed task orchestration
Experience self‑hosting cloud or open‑source infrastructure components
Background with blockchain or decentralized systems (not required)
Contributions to open‑source projects
Familiarity with Rust or TypeScript microservices
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By making IP programmable, Story transforms intellectual property into a transparent, decentralized, global repository where AI agents, developers, and humans alike can transact, license, and monetize IP with a simple API call.
In February 2025, we launched the Story mainnet, and our native $IP token is now listed on major global exchanges. As we grow the next era of programmable IP infrastructure, we are expanding our core engineering team and are now looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to take ownership of critical services that keep the Story protocol running.
About The Role We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who can own and maintain Story’s backend systems end to end, including the Story API, indexing pipelines, workflow orchestration services, and the supporting cloud infrastructure behind them.
This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering and infrastructure. You will primarily work on Story’s backend services in Go, but will also collaborate closely with infrastructure on deployments, cloud migrations, and system reliability. This is a high‑impact role that will immediately take on meaningful responsibilities across the Story platform.
You will join a small, highly technical team where you will have autonomy, significant ownership, and the opportunity to influence the architecture of Story’s backend as we scale.
What You’ll Do
Maintain and extend the Story API, indexing systems, and backend services
Write high‑quality Go code and improve the performance and reliability of distributed services
Support day‑to‑day infrastructure needs, including deployments, monitoring, and cloud operations
Contribute to the GCP to AWS migration and help stand up self‑hosted Temporal
Debug issues across the stack and own services from design through deployment
Collaborate with backend, infra, and protocol engineers on architecture, reviews, and best practices
Take on maintenance and optimization work left by recent team transitions and help re‑establish backend coverage for Story
Design and implement new backend systems and services from the ground up, shaping core platform capabilities as Story evolves
Who You Are
5 to 8+ years of software engineering experience, with strong backend focus
Proficiency with Go (Golang) in production environments
Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and concurrency
Hands‑on experience with AWS or other major cloud providers
Experience deploying, maintaining, and debugging production services
Ability to operate in a fast‑moving, high‑ownership startup environment
Excellent communication and collaboration skillsBased in the Bay Area and comfortable with a hybrid work model
Nice To Have
Experience with infrastructure tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes, or CI/CD
Familiarity with Temporal, workflow systems, or distributed task orchestration
Experience self‑hosting cloud or open‑source infrastructure components
Background with blockchain or decentralized systems (not required)
Contributions to open‑source projects
Familiarity with Rust or TypeScript microservices
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