Backend Software Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)

Backend Software Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure

Location: Remote in the United States

Employees: 30 | Industry: Machine Learning, AI | Reports To: Vice President, Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Designing and building cloud environments using Terraform, CloudFormation, Rust, Python, Java
• Developing automation scripts to streamline deployments, monitoring, and operations
• Implementing monitoring and alerting solutions to address performance and reliability issues
• Enforcing security policies and ensuring compliance with industry standards like GDPR, SOC2
• Collaborating with software engineering teams to integrate DevOps best practices
• Mentoring junior engineers on IaC and cloud best practices

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure with Azure, AWS, GCP, or Heroku
• Backend software engineering skills with languages like Python, Java, and/or Rust
• Expertise in IaC tools like Puppet, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation
• Experience with configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring
• Experience designing and managing production environments with Kubernetes + Helm
• Experience collaborating with designers, back-end engineers, ML engineers, data scientists
• Experience building control plans for both managed and BYOC deployments

Preferred Experience:

• Early-stage startup experience
• Open-source contribution or product experience
• Understanding of IaC, RAG, agents, models, vector storage, developer tools
• Experience with machine learning (ML) and/or AI centric (data intensive) products

Compensation:

• $160K - $220K + Equity