Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bright Data is seeking exceptional and experienced Backend JavaScript Developers to join their Network team. The role involves taking end-to-end ownership of services and features in production, focusing on backend services that power the company’s networking infrastructure with a strong emphasis on performance, reliability, and security.
Responsibilities
- End-to-end feature development, from design and implementation to production rollout and ongoing improvements
- Build and maintain high-scale backend services with strong emphasis on performance, reliability, and security
- Participate in system design and architecture planning to ensure scalable and maintainable solutions
- Work on networking-related challenges such as traffic flows, proxy behavior, request/response handling, and protocol-level edge cases
- Investigate and troubleshoot complex networking issues using tools such as Wireshark (and similar packet inspection/debugging tools)
- Write high-quality, maintainable code with appropriate test coverage; participate actively in code reviews
- Collaborate closely with engineers and stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions
- Continuously learn and apply best practices in backend engineering and networking
Skills
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including 2+ years focused on backend JavaScript / Node.js development
- Very good understanding of how the Node.js event loop works, including practical knowledge of the platform's strengths and limitations (I/O vs CPU-bound workloads, async patterns, blocking pitfalls, memory/GC considerations)
- Proven experience building and operating production backend services
- Strong understanding of network protocols and security, including: TCP/IP/UDP, DNS, HTTP1/2/3, TLS and WebSockets
- Experience with databases and caching layers such as MongoDB and Redis
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized deployments
- Proficient in system design fundamentals: APIs, scalability, performance, reliability, and fault tolerance
- Fast learner, able to work independently and as part of a team
- Proficiency in English, with strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with AWS and SaaS environments
- Experience debugging production networking issues (latency, packet loss, connection reuse, TLS handshakes, etc.)
- Experience with observability tooling (logs/metrics/tracing) and incident response/on-call
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