At Sanity.io, we’re building the future of AI-powered Content Operations. Our AI Content Operating System gives teams the freedom to model, create, and automate content the way their business works, accelerating digital development and supercharging content operations efficiency. Companies like SKIMS, Figma, Riot Games, Anthropic, COMPLEX, Nordstrom, and Morningbrew are using Sanity to power and automate their content operations.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Content Lake DX team, you’ll be responsible for building highly scalable, performant distributed systems providing our core content storage and querying capabilities, serving millions of requests a minute.

Some of the things you’ll be focusing on are, AI powered search, intelligent caching, lightning fast performance and our open source query language GROQ.

What you would do:

• Drive the design and development of new features. You’ll tackle ambiguous problems, rapidly iterate, and innovate on novel solutions that power the Content Lake.

• Operate a high-scale distributed system. You’ll help ensure the reliability of our platform by instrumenting and monitoring critical systems with metrics, logs, and traces

• Measure, debug, and enhance performance across the stack. You’ll identify bottlenecks, tune system behavior, and drive systemic performance improvements

• Lead critical incident responses and resolve our most complex defects. You’ll own production issues end-to-end, from mitigation to root cause analysis and long-term remediation.

• Continuously improve how we work. You’ll reflect on our processes and recommend product and operational improvements that make us better.

• Foster a culture of engineering excellence. You’ll mentor peers, uphold high standards through code reviews and testing, and champion thoughtful, maintainable code.

About you:

• Based in North America (East Coast/ET) or Europe

• A proven track record of building and running distributed applications at scale, preferably at a product/SaaS company.

• An expert in any back-end language; however, you’ll be required to write Go and some TypeScript / Node.js.

• A deep understanding of SQL / NoSQL with experience optimising your queries

• You have a natural curiosity about cutting-edge technology. You love to learn about the latest developments and apply them to your work.

• You can clearly communicate the ideas behind your solutions and break big solutions into smaller chunks.

• A compassionate, friendly human being who cares and respects the people you work with.

Not sure you’re exactly what we’re looking for in this role? Apply anyway!

What we can offer:

• A highly-skilled, inspiring, and supportive team

• Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment that encourages long-term professional and personal growth

• A global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers

• Comprehensive health plans and perks

• A healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs

• Competitive salary and stock options program

Who we are:

Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems. One of our big differentiators is treating content as data so that it can be stored in a single source of truth, but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort. Forward-thinking companies choose Sanity because they can create tailored content authoring experiences, customized workflows, and content models that reflect their business.

Sanity recently raised a $85m Series C led by GP Bullhound and is also backed by leading investors like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, Heavybit and Shopify, as well as founders of companies like Vercel, WPEngine, Twitter, Mux, Netlify and Heroku. This funding round has put Sanity in a strong position for accelerated growth in the coming years.

You can only build a great company with a great culture. Sanity is a 200+ person company with highly committed and ambitious people. We are pioneers, we exist for our customers, we are hel ved, and we love type two fun! Read more about our values here!

Sanity.io pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or gender identity.