Senior Backend Engineer
Telnyx (company site, opens in a new tab)On-siteDirect career pageEst. 28–45 LPA
Posted on 9 Sept
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About This Role
- Own and operate backend services supporting WebRTC and Voice SDK products including authentication, token management, push notifications, proxying, RTC DNS, and diagnostic logging.
- Improve reliability, scalability, observability, and architecture of real-time communication backend systems, including deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support.
- Collaborate closely with mobile and JavaScript SDK engineers to enhance connection setup, routing, authentication flows, and overall service behavior in distributed communication environments.
Minimum Requirements
- Professional experience building and operating backend systems in production.
- Experience with backend technologies and ability to work or ramp up quickly on Elixir or Erlang.
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and distributed systems relevant to real-time communication.
- Work Experience Required: Not explicitly mentioned in the JD.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experience designing and maintaining distributed, low-latency, real-time communication systems such as WebRTC or VoIP.
- Strong background in backend engineering with ownership of services through design, deployment, and monitoring lifecycle phases.
- Proficient with observability tools, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD pipelines and familiarity with push notification services like APNs or FCM.