Senior Backend Engineer
Checkly
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About the role
Role Overview
Join Checkly as a Senior Backend Engineer on Team Tree, supporting enterprise enablement. The role offers high autonomy, end-to-end ownership, and the chance to build capabilities that directly improve customer reliability.
Key Missions
- Own and evolve the uptime monitoring platform, delivering new customer capabilities.
- Work with infrastructure to deploy a ClickHouse instance to store check run logs and metadata.
- Improve the status pages product, aiming for an industry-leading standard of reliability.
Responsibilities
- Drive problems end-to-end and deliver business impact.
- Contribute across the platform, working with multiple service stacks.
Requirements
- Strong interest in developer tooling and testing frameworks, including Playwright.
- Ability to communicate clearly in spoken and written English.
- Experience building distributed systems on AWS/GCP or bare metal servers.
- Comfort working autonomously in a remote environment.
- Deep experience building applications in a professional SaaS product environment.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with TypeScript (required) and Go (plus).
- Willingness to ramp up on Go after joining.
Tech Context
Checkly runs services in TypeScript and Go; the role expects you to work across both stacks.
About Checkly
Checkly is a company that provides uptime monitoring and application performance reliability tooling for developers and enterprise teams. Its platform focuses on helping customers detect issues and improve service reliability through monitoring, logs, and status reporting capabilities.
Scraped 5/12/2026