# Senior Backend Engineer

Today’s complex, fast-paced systems have become a minefield of reliability risks-any of which could cause an outage that costs millions and destroys customer confidence. That’s why high-availability teams use the Gremlin to find and fix reliability risks before they become incidents. Gremlin Reliability Platform helps software teams proactively monitor and test their systems for common reliability risks, build and enforce reliability standards, and automate their reliability practices organization-wide. As the industry leader in Chaos Engineering and reliability testing, we work with hundreds of the world’s largest organizations where high availability is non-negotiable. About the Role of the Senior Software Engineer As a Software Engineer at Gremlin, you will have the opportunity to improve the reliability of the internet at large by developing Chaos Engineering tooling. You will be able to leverage your engineering experience to inform product design as well as solve complex technical problems that directly impact our customers (which range from the Fortune 500 to smaller organizations). You will work closely with a small, talented team focused on quality, delivery, and predictab

- **Id**: 585316
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/gremlin-senior-backend-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2025-03-28T17:32:12Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-16
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T18:03:23Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 589
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6073
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity, Flexible time off
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: DevOps & Platform Engineering, Custom Software Development

## Company

- **Id**: 328635
- **Name**: Gremlin
- **Domain**: gremlin.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/gremlin>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 220000
- **Max**: 290000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 290000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **Chaos Engineering** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **DynamoDB** — Optional: no
- **Incident Management** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 588

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-10T03:22:47Z
- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T09:56:06Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Filed H-1B visas in the last two years; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 6
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.215
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 588
- **Expected fill days**: 35
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 290000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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