Backend Engineer

5 days ago

San Mateo, California, United States Luminary Cloud Full time
Key Duties, Responsibilities, and DeliverablesProduct & Backend Feature Development
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of features and products.
  • Implement, test, and maintain robust, scalable backend systems and APIs, ensuring high performance, reliability, and data integrity.
  • Apply backend development best practices to ensure code quality, maintainability, security, and operational readiness.
Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
  • Develop and enhance our cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) through automation and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
  • Develop, oversee, and maintain operational systems—from deployment pipelines to orchestration layers—ensuring application health, reliability, and scalability using containerized solutions like Kubernetes.
  • Execute scalability and performance optimization strategies to ensure systems efficiently handle increasing workloads.
Architecture & Systems Design
  • Contribute to the design and implementation of systems using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles, enabling independent, reusable services and microservices.
  • Participate in architectural discussions that influence the platform's long-term reliability, performance, and scalability.
Security, Reliability & Documentation
  • Collaborate with security experts to integrate IAM, authentication, authorization, encryption, and related best practices.
  • Participate in on-call rotations/incident response, contributing to the operational reliability of our platform.
  • Create and maintain documentation on system architecture, infrastructure, and security practices.
Expertise and QualificationsRequired
  • 5+ years of experience building performant, scalable, distributed systems (or equivalent experience).
  • 10+ years of experience required for Senior/Lead candidates.
  • Proficiency in Golang and Python is highly desirable.
  • Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred), CI/CD pipelines, and core SRE/DevOps concepts.
  • Proven experience designing and implementing scalable SaaS backend systems.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and cloud automation.
  • Strong understanding of operational practices and willingness to participate in on-call rotations.
  • Knowledge of modern security principles and IAM fundamentals.
  • A passion for staying current with backend, cloud, and infrastructure technologies.

Preferred Qualifications (Senior Candidates)
  • Demonstrated success scaling infrastructure in a startup environment, including multicloud, hybrid, or on-prem deployments.
  • Proven experience mentoring and guiding engineers, supporting technical growth and career development.
  • Ability to act as a technical architect, making high-impact design decisions for reliable, scalable, and secure platform systems.
Background and Experience Traits
  • SaaS Platform Expertise: Experience building and scaling cloud-based SaaS platforms.
  • Adaptability: Ability to learn and adopt new technologies quickly in a fast-moving environment.
  • Teamwork & Communication: Strong communication skills, enabling effective collaboration and clear articulation of technical concepts.
    Entrepreneurial Spirit: Comfortable with ambiguity, adaptable to change, and energized by building in a rapidly evolving startup setting.

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