Senior Backend Software Development Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Backend Software Development Engineer (Public Cloud Foundations)

• Focus: Backend services and APIs for a self-service public cloud platform

Description

You will build and own backend services and APIs that abstract public cloud complexity into safe, reliable, self-service capabilities (account provisioning, networking, IAM, and policy). The work turns recurring manual cloud operations and runbooks into APIs, controls, and automation, while treating internal teams as “customers” of the platform. You will also ensure production reliability via observability, SLOs, and self-healing, including on-call responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own backend services and APIs for self-service cloud capabilities

• Convert repetitive cloud work (human judgment, runbooks) into safe-by-default products (APIs, controls, automation)

• Gather feedback and usage data from platform customers to shape interfaces and roadmap

• Lead reliability engineering with observability, SLOs, and self-healing; participate in on-call for shipped services

• Use modern AI-assisted and agentic tooling to accelerate design, implementation, and operations with quality and safety

• Influence platform enablement approaches with a product mindset

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional backend or platform software engineering experience building and operating production services

• Strong system design skills for distributed systems and API-based platforms with practical focus on simplicity, resiliency, and observability

• Production experience with Golang or Python (preferred) or another modern language; strong testing, code review, and debugging habits

• Strong experience with a public cloud provider (preferably AWS) and core primitives: VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancers, security groups, IAM, compute, storage

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform; reusable, tested software approach; review changes for safety and manage drift

• Working knowledge of cloud security fundamentals (IAM, network segmentation, encryption, policy enforcement in multi-account environments)

• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo)

• Strong bias toward eliminating toil by encoding repeated manual work into software interfaces and automation

Benefits

• Competitive base salary with location-based ranges

• Equity awards eligibility based on experience, performance, and location