Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optimal Dynamics develops intelligent transportation logistics technology based on pioneering research and data-driven planning. The company is seeking a Senior or Staff-level Backend Software Engineer to build and scale platform infrastructure, developer tooling, security controls, and cloud-native systems while guiding technical direction and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities
- **Platform Architecture & Evolution**: Design, implement, and scale core infrastructure to ensure reliability, performance, and security
- **Developer Experience (DevEx)**: Build and improve tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and workflows, optimizing developer productivity and minimizing friction
- **Security & Compliance**: Champion security-by-design principles, implementing controls that safeguard systems and data without slowing innovation
- **Mentorship & Influence:** Serve as a technical leader across teams, coaching engineers, and driving alignment on platform strategy
- **Collaboration:** Partner with product and engineering leaders, balancing speed, cost, and resilience in every decision
- **Embrace the Dynamic Startup environment**: You’ll wear multiple hats, tackle new challenges, and contribute wherever needed to fuel our growth!
Skills
- * **Educated**: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent technical experience
- 8+ years of hands-on **Infrastructure & Platform Engineering experience**
- Proven track record of scaling **cloud-native systems**
- Strong **Python 3** expertise
- Strong **AWS** expertise
- Familiarity with **event-driven architectures** (Kafka or similar)
- Familiarity with **Relational databases** (Postgres, DynamoDB, MySQL, SQL Server, or similar)
- Hands-on **IaC** tool experience (i.e. Terraform, Spacelift, CloudFormation), **observability**, **monitoring**, & **incident response**
- Hands on **containerization** and **orchestration** experience (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
- Proven track record of improving **DevEx** by leveling up tooling, pipelines, & automation
- Experience improving **monorepo** developer workflows (i.e. Bazel, Buck, Pants)
- Knowledge of **compliance frameworks** (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.) and how to operationalize them
- Experience leading **security initiatives**(i.e. hardening environments; building secure-by-default workflows)
- A history of mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction across teams
- This is a full-time, remote-friendly position open to candidates across the United States
- * Experience with transportation systems (e.g., TMS, ELD) or scientific/analytics applications is a significant advantage
- * Familiarity with modern data tools such as dbt and DuckDB is highly valued
Benefits
- Series C level equity
- Health / Dental / Vision 100% covered for employee and 50% for dependents
- Life Insurance, with optional supplemental insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- 401(k) with match
- Unlimited PTO (vacation, personal days, sick days, jury duty, military leave, bereavement)
- 11 Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave for all employees
- Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurances, and AD&D Insurance
- Fitness membership reimbursement
- Commuter benefits
- Flexible, remote-friendly work arrangement
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