# Staff Backend Software Engineer at Carbon

- Company: Carbon
- What the company does: Backed by 500 Global.
- Company website: https://carbon.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $210K to $314K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/carbon/jobs/5197948007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/carbon-staff-backend-software-engineer/

## About the role

At Carbon, our mission goes beyond 3D printing. We are enabling creators everywhere to make what the world needs, right now. Our company is built on the idea that diverse fields of study must come together to solve intractable problems. We have grand ambitions to create technology that will influence industry around the world. You will be joining a diverse team with a vibrant culture, where team success is as important as celebrating individual contributions.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of experience building and operating production backend services, with a track record of driving major initiatives end to end
- Deep Linux fundamentals: processes, filesystems, networking, systemd, boot and init, package management, users and permissions, and the ability to debug production Linux problems from first principles
- Strong networking skills: TCP/IP, TLS, DNS, HTTP, WebSockets, NAT and firewall traversal, and comfort reasoning about connectivity between services in the cloud and devices on customer networks
- Hands-on experience with OS provisioning and lifecycle: installing, imaging, updating, and rolling back Linux systems in the field, including A/B update strategies or similar patterns
- Expert-level proficiency in at least one modern backend language (C++, TypeScript, or similar), and comfort dropping into others when needed
- A production mindset: you think about failure modes, blast radius, observability, and upgrade paths from the start, and you have carried a pager for systems you built

Tags: Software