Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Emerald Cloud Lab is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join its platform team and build services that power cloud-based scientific research. The role focuses on developing scalable APIs and backend services for remote experiment orchestration, collaborating across technical and scientific teams, and ensuring reliable, secure, and maintainable software operations.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop highly scalable backend services, ensuring performance and security
- Collaborate with designers, scientists and engineers to deliver products solving real challenges experienced in labs by our users
- Help set technical and product direction, collaborating with the team to determine the future of the product, what features to build, and how to build them
- Ensure continual, high-availability operation of our services using modern reliability practices, including detailed observability and participation in an on-call rotation
- Participate in code reviews and troubleshoot any performance or security issues
- Advocate for healthy and maintainable software practices
Skills
- * 8+ years of experience providing backend development to products and enterprise software
- * 6+ years in Cloud or AWS hands on development
- * Experience with database technologies (SQL or NoSQL)
- * Experience working with startups or small growing companies
- * Full life cycle experience with software product development
- * Experience with Kubernetes and Docker for containerization
- * Experience with distributed systems
- * Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- * Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern build tooling
- * Exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), containers, and observability
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