Senior Backend & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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Senior Backend & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in USA new

Sekai
Full time
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USA
11/10/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Own the architecture, development, and evolution of core backend services using Python or Go.
Design and build high-performance, highly available APIs supporting consumer features and AI/LLM workloads.
Design and tune asynchronous task processing and message queues for throughput and data consistency.
Plan, build, and govern AWS infrastructure and drive Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or similar tools.
Build and improve monitoring, logging, alerting, capacity planning, autoscaling, and disaster recovery.
Lead incident troubleshooting, on-call response, postmortems, and production stability improvements.
Manage cloud cost, least-privilege IAM, multiple cloud accounts, and internal network access.
Create reusable services, middleware, internal tools, and CI/CD improvements.

Requirements

At least 5 years of backend development experience, including at least 2 years of cloud or infrastructure work.
Strong proficiency in Python or Go and hands-on experience with FastAPI, Django, or Gin.
Production experience architecting, operating, and optimizing AWS infrastructure and costs.
Experience with Docker, ECS or Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
Strong MySQL or PostgreSQL schema design and performance tuning skills.
Familiarity with Redis, Kafka, Nginx, and other middleware.
Production debugging, on-call, postmortem, project ownership, and communication experience.
Preferred: backend experience with AI/LLM applications, high-traffic consumer products, multi-cloud or cloud migration work, BigQuery or similar data platforms, and networking or security knowledge.

Benefits

Remote-first work arrangement across all positions.
Top-tier market salary and competitive equity; no specific compensation amount stated.
Full health insurance.

Salary: Competitive

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