Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. The Senior Software Engineer will design, build, and scale backend systems for Vultr's cloud platform, requiring expertise in PHP and MySQL, modern API design, and collaborative engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance PHP applications serving millions of API requests daily
- Architect and optimize MySQL database schemas, queries, and indexing strategies for low-latency access
- Implement and maintain RESTful APIs following modern API design standards, including OpenAPI specifications and versioning best practices
- Design and implement asynchronous workflows, background jobs, queues, and event-driven integrations where appropriate
- Participate in architecture discussions, incident response, and root-cause analysis for production issues
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver scalable solutions
- Conduct code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and champion engineering best practices
- Write clean, well-tested code with comprehensive unit and integration test coverage
Skills
- 5+ years of professional software development experience with strong proficiency in modern PHP (PHP 8+) and common frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, or Slim
- Deep expertise in MySQL including query optimization and schema design for high-traffic applications
- Strong experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs using modern standards
- Experience with Redis for caching, distributed locking, queues, and performance optimization
- Familiarity with message queues and asynchronous processing systems such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS, or Redis Streams
- Proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with logging, monitoring, tracing, and observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, etc.)
- Understanding of API security best practices including OAuth2, JWT, RBAC, rate limiting, and OWASP principles
- Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms (Vultr, AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and Git-based development workflows
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across distributed teams
Benefits
- 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.
- 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
- Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
- 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
- Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
- $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
- Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
- Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
- Company paid Wellable subscription
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