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Senior Backend / Platform Engineer

About Tower

We're building a serverless data platform that helps data scientists and data engineers build leaner data stacks and own their data. We're powered by Apache Iceberg and a whole collection of open source tools that we try to contribute upstream to as much as we can!

Job Description

Join Tower as a Senior Backend / Platform Engineer to own deep systems work (scheduling, distributed execution, performance) on Tower's Python-native serverless data platform. You'll work on the platform built with Go and Rust, Kubernetes on AWS (EKS + Karpenter), and services like RDS Postgres, ElastiCache Redis, S3/Iceberg, and WorkOS for auth. Responsibilities include end-to-end ownership, ensuring correctness under load, and contributing to the runtime and dispatch system. Bonus: experience with data-platforms, Iceberg, query engine, async Rust, and Kubernetes internals. Location: London or Berlin; Hybrid work arrangement.

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Remote Conditions

Hybrid: on-site in London or Berlin with partial remote options.

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Tech Tags

Senior Role

Date Listed

02 July, 2026 (about 1 month ago)
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