Backend Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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Higgsfield
Full time
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10/18/2026
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Almaty, Kazakhstan

Responsibilities

Build shared infrastructure services for queues, job scheduling, caching, configuration, and service communication.
Improve concurrency limits, resource allocation, and recovery for long-running media workloads.
Make database access, migrations, and connection management safer and faster.
Simplify service setup, testing, deployment, and production debugging.
Improve observability, investigate incidents, and reduce infrastructure cost per completed job.
Partner with product engineers to ship focused improvements, measure results, and support infrastructure in production.

Requirements

Experience running production systems on Kubernetes and AWS, including deployments, scaling, networking, and troubleshooting.
Strong software engineering skills building shared services, tools, and automation for other engineers.
Experience with databases, queues, and distributed systems, including performance debugging, safe rollouts, and recovery.
Demonstrated ownership of a difficult production problem from an unclear starting point to a working solution.
Ability to set priorities, make practical tradeoffs, remove blockers, and ask for help when needed.
Clear communication, openness to feedback, and knowledge sharing.
Nice-to-have experience with Cloudflare, infrastructure as code, PostgreSQL, Redis, event-streaming systems, or high-throughput media pipelines and AI workload orchestration.

Benefits

Competitive base pay in USD and equity.
Relocation support.
Ownership of infrastructure used across engineering teams.
Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Salary: Competitive

Higgsfield

Higgsfield is the ultimate production studio for creators by creators. 40% of our team are filmmakers, producers, and creatives who shape our product roadmap, working side by side with our ML engineers in a relentless creative feedback loop. We're on a mission to give everyone with a vision the t...

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