Backend Engineer

## About the role We're building X-Streamify, a personal media vault that gives families full ownership and control of their movies, photos, and digital content. We're looking for a DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure Engineer who wants to build something meaningful from the ground up and take part in a fast-moving startup environment. This role offers the opportunity to design, deploy, and maintain the infrastructure that powers our platform, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability as we grow. This is an early-stage startup where team members take ownership, move quickly, and help shape the product from the beginning. ## Responsibilities - Design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) - Manage servers, storage systems, and deployment pipelines - Monitor system performance, uptime, and reliability - Implement security best practices and data protection measures - Automate deployments and infrastructure management - Troubleshoot system issues and respond to outages - Support backend and frontend teams with infrastructure needs - Help establish scalable infrastructure for future growth ## What we're looking for - Strong experience with cloud infrastructure and deployment - Experience working with AWS or similar cloud platforms - Understanding of system reliability, monitoring, and security - Experience with deployment automation and infrastructure management - Ability to troubleshoot production issues quickly - Ability to work independently in a startup environment - Startup mindset — ownership, speed, and problem solving ## Preferred technologies (not required) - AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront, Lambda, etc.) - Docker - CI/CD pipelines - Linux servers - Monitoring and logging tools - Infrastructure automation ## Bonus experience (nice to have) - Experience working in startup environments - Experience scaling cloud infrastructure - Experience securing production systems - Experience supporting high-availability platforms - Experience working with distributed systems ## What we offer This is an early-stage startup role offering equity-only compensation at this time. There is no salary for this position. This is an opportunity to build from the ground up and participate in the company's long-term growth as we work toward funding and scale.