Senior Backend Engineer, Prefect Cloud

About this role

## [Prefect](https://www.prefect.io/) builds and operates resilient, Pythonic orchestration and MCP platforms -- [Prefect OSS](https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect), [Prefect Cloud](https://www.prefect.io/prefect/cloud), [FastMCP OSS,](https://gofastmcp.com/getting-started/welcome) and [Horizon](https://www.prefect.io/horizon) -- used for mission-critical workloads.

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Our Vision: Prefect will define automation for the context era.

Our Mission: Curate an intelligent context layer that delivers the right information at the right time.

Our remote first company is singularly focused on this vision and mission, and every team member directly contributes to their advancement.

We've carefully created a supportive, high-performance culture - the operating system of our company - that empowers our team to do the best work of their careers and achieve their personal and professional aspirations.

Our company operates both open-source and commercial offerings, partnering with Fortune 500 companies, data innovators, and fast-growing digitally native startups. We are looking for folks who want to join a remote-first team #LI-Remote to continue building an equally amazing company, product, and developer community.

## Role Summary

We're looking for a senior back-end leaning product engineer to join the Prefect Cloud team and help us scale from millions to billions of tasks per day.

We’re looking for candidates who have owned large-scale distributed systems and have meaningful experience designing, building, or materially extending a query engine, analytical database, streaming system, or distributed data-processing runtime. That experience may come from systems such as DataFusion, ClickHouse, Trino or Presto, DuckDB, Velox, Spark, Flink, Materialize, or similar technologies.

You'll report to Zach Angell, Director of Engineering for Prefect Cloud.

## What You'll Do

• **Own meaningful distributed systems in Pre...