Senior Backend Engineer

About the Company The company is an early-stage technology organization building mission-critical infrastructure software for large-scale data center environments. Its platform monitors environmental conditions, helps predict potential failures before outages occur, and supports efficiency across complex physical infrastructure. With strong enterprise traction, the company is moving from the MVP stage toward an enterprise-scale platform. The engineering team is focused on reliable distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and software that operates in real-world, mission-critical environments. About the Role We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help scale the backend systems that power real-time monitoring across data center infrastructure globally. This is a high-ownership role focused on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, reliability, observability, APIs, and edge/cloud orchestration. This is not a typical SaaS CRUD backend position. The role is best suited to an engineer with strong systems thinking, architectural judgment, production experience with Go, and experience building reliable backend systems at scale. Key Responsibilities •Build and scale distributed backend systems in Go •Work on real-time sensor and event ingestion •Scale cloud infrastructure on AWS •Build multi-region and high-availability systems •Support edge device orchestration and device data flows •Improve backend reliability, observability, and performance •Build and maintain public and internal APIs •Work on data pipelines and analytics infrastructure •Support future machine learning and predictive analytics infrastructure •Move edge device data into cloud analytics systems •Support multi-AZ architecture and enterprise readiness initiatives •Help scale infrastructure for international deployments •Solve complex backend and infrastructure problems with a high degree of ownership Required Qualifications •6–10+ years of backend engineering experience •Strong systems thinking and architectural judgment •Production experience with Go/Golang •Experience scaling distributed systems •AWS or cloud infrastructure experience •Strong API architecture experience •SQL and PostgreSQL experience •Startup experience •Ability to work effectively with ambiguity and fast iteration •High ownership and ability to operate independently without heavy mentorship Preferred Qualifications •Infrastructure or platform engineering background •Edge computing or device management experience •Docker or containerization experience •Redis or caching experience •Reliability and observability systems experience •IoT or real-world systems experience •Experience in high-scale technology environments •Event-driven or real-time systems experience •Multi-region or high-availability architecture experience Technical Environment •Go/Golang •Distributed systems and microservices •AWS and cloud infrastructure •PostgreSQL and SQL •Redis •Docker •Backend and platform engineering •Observability and reliability •Edge computing and IoT •High-availability and multi-region systems •Event-driven and real-time systems •Device orchestration Work Arrangement & Opportunity •Full-time remote position •Early-stage, high-ownership engineering team •Opportunity to work on mission-critical infrastructure software •Enterprise and hyperscaler customer use cases •Early-stage equity upside •Opportunity to build systems supporting major data center operations •Greenfield scaling challenges •Meaningful technical and product ownership