Senior Backend Engineer (Platform Operations)

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Role OverviewWe are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with a strong operations focus to build and operate the backend of our distributed radar platform. You will work across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, databases, messaging systems, and observability, with a strong emphasis on reliability and sound engineering practices.Key Responsibilities- Design and build backend services for ingesting, processing, and distributing data from distributed sensor nodes

• Build and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows
• Establish and operate development, staging, and production environments
• Design systems that degrade gracefully and recover from partial failures
• Operate and improve databases, messaging systems, and other stateful infrastructure
• Build metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting for the platform
• Automate infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and cloud-native tooling
• Define backend architecture and drive engineering practices, mentoring engineers as the team grows

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of professional experience building and operating backend or distributed systems
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, Linux, and production failure modes
• Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Go, Rust, C++, or Python
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, Docker, Kubernetes, or comparable container orchestration platforms
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and production deployment workflows