Backend Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Develop and manage our backend systems, particularly focusing on containerized services and cloud storage solutions for data ingestion and processing as we go from prototypes -> fleet of 5,000 MO/GOs shipped to…
• Automate infrastructure setup and management using tools like Terraform, making the deployment process more reproducible and scalable.
• Enable us to scale safely and sustainable, for example transitioning from a single cloud project to distinct Dev and Prod projects in GCP, ensuring system safety, data integrity, and environment separation.
• Design and optimize data storage and retrieval processes, scaling up storage buckets and data ingestion pipelines to meet increasing data demands.
• Manage and streamline CI/CD workflows currently hosted in GitHub, reducing costs by optimizing test run segmentation and potentially hosting CI on GCP VMs.
• Monitor and optimize infrastructure, ensuring efficient usage of compute and storage resources
• Develop automation scripts and processes for infrastructure provisioning, backups, monitoring, and maintenance, enhancing system stability and scalability.
• Implement security best practices across backend and infrastructure to ensure data protection and system reliability.