# Senior Backend Engineer (Infrastructure) at Sphere

- Company: Sphere
- What the company does: Manage VAT, GST, and sales tax worldwide with Sphere’s global tax compliance software. Automate registration, calculation, and filing seamlessly. Backed by Y Combinator, a16z and Felicis.
- Company website: https://www.getsphere.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco HQ
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $220K to $280K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-02-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sphere/c7b17c18-2dde-4b83-a8a5-ff5effe94dd2
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sphere-senior-backend-engineer-infrastructure/

## About the role

Experience working with large volumes of transaction data. You’ll be getting very familiar with it! Very strong attention to detail. When you work with numbers this is a non-negotiable - it’s not enough to be 99% right.

## What they're looking for

- Experience managing k8s clusters in AWS/GCP/Azure at scale
- Extensive experience shipping high-quality architectures for mission critical systems (focus on high availability, high load, low latency)
- Experience with Postgres at scale

Tags: Engineering