Senior Cloud/Backend Engineer

## About the Role We're looking for a Senior Cloud Backend Engineer to join our Infrastructure Team. You should enjoy solving complex problems, working deep in the details, helping other developers, and owning systems end-to-end. This role also includes being a key part of our weekend on-call rotation, supporting the reliability of our platform. Are you passionate about building reliable, scalable systems? Do you thrive on open-ended problems? Do you love designing, building, and owning complex infrastructure from conception to production? If yes, you're in the right place. ## Responsibilities - Deploy and support our service infrastructure in Kubernetes - Identify the right tools and technologies for major initiatives and then build them - Help other teams and developers design robust and scalable systems. - Scale and optimize multiple databases - Build internal tooling that accelerates developer velocity - Provide observability, monitoring, and visibility across our systems ## On-Call Responsibilities (2–3 rotations per month) - You will participate in a shared on-call rotation, typically 2–3 times per month, covering the period from Friday at 7:00 AM ET through Saturday at 5:00 PM ET. ### How our on-call system works - You'll receive full internal training to understand our architecture, operational flows, and incident procedures - During your rotation, you are the primary point of escalation for production issues - On-call is not a daily responsibility, only during your assigned weekends - Shifts rotate across the team to maintain balance and avoid burnout ### What on-call requires - Strong understanding of system architecture and cross-service dependencies - Previous real-world experience in production on-call environments - Ability to quickly assess incidents, identify scope/root cause, and understand platform impact - Ability to classify severity and prioritize response appropriately - Capability to deploy safe production hotfixes when needed - Solid judgment under pressure - especially when operating independently - Ownership mindset: from detection to mitigation to resolution ## Requirements - 3+ years of experience as an independent backend or infrastructure engineer - Ability to design and build scalable, reliable systems - Strong communication skills - Hands-on builder mentality — this is a coding role. - Experience with: - Relational and non-relational databases - Major Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), GCP is an advantage - Streaming systems - Scaling large systems - Message queues - Monitoring systems like DataDog, Grafana, Groundcover - CI/CD, Git ## Nice to Have - Bonus Skills: Kubernetes and Knative (production experience) & ClickHouse ## Technologies we use - Databases: ClickHouse, MongoDB, Redis, PubSub, Postgres, BigTable, Firestore, SonicDataFlow - Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Knative, GCP, Temporal, Pulumi - Languages: Node.js, TypeScript, Python - Tooling: Git, GitHub, GCP build infrastructure, GitHub Actions