Senior Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure in United States.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Backend Infrastructure, you will be responsible for designing and maintaining highly scalable, reliable backend systems that support core product capabilities. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build robust APIs, distributed systems, and reusable frameworks that empower other engineers to deliver high-quality features efficiently. This role combines hands-on engineering with strategic problem-solving, focusing on performance, uptime, and maintainability at scale. You will be part of a mission-driven, collaborative team operating in a remote-first environment, where your work directly impacts the performance and growth of products used by millions of users. The position offers opportunities to innovate on critical backend architecture while influencing best practices across the engineering organization.

• Design, develop, and maintain resilient backend services handling critical user-facing functionality such as identity, media, and communication systems.
• Build and maintain reusable libraries, frameworks, and tooling for logging, monitoring, storage access, and service-to-service communication.
• Partner with product and platform teams to design APIs and distributed system patterns that are reliable, scalable, and maintainable.
• Anticipate scaling and performance challenges, implement capacity planning, and proactively resolve infrastructure issues.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure services meet defined SLAs and respond to production incidents.
• Enable other engineering teams by providing frameworks, patterns, and tools that accelerate development while maintaining consistency and service health.

• 5+ years of experience in backend or systems engineering roles, with exposure to high-scale production environments.
• Proficiency in backend languages such as Go, Python, or PHP for building APIs and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and Linux-based infrastructure.
• Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting services that handle critical, high-traffic applications.
• Solid understanding of databases, caching, and messaging systems (e.g., DynamoDB, Postgres, Redis, Kafka).
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across teams, balancing product velocity with long-term infrastructure reliability.
• Experience building platforms or frameworks that enable other engineering teams to work efficiently and consistently.

• Competitive salary, with ranges based on location and experience.
• Remote-first work environment with flexibility across U.S. locations.
• Opportunity to work on high-impact backend systems supporting millions of users.
• Collaborative, mission-driven engineering culture focused on ownership, transparency, and innovation.
• Participation in shaping engineering best practices, tooling, and reusable frameworks.
• Professional growth opportunities within a fast-paced, scalable infrastructure organization.

Jobgether is a Talent Matching Platform that partners with companies worldwide to efficiently connect top talent with the right opportunities through AI-driven job matching.

When you apply, your profile goes through our AI-powered screening process designed to identify top talent efficiently and fairly.

🔍 Our AI evaluates your CV and LinkedIn profile thoroughly, analyzing your skills, experience, and achievements.

📊 It compares your profile to the job’s core requirements and past success factors to determine your match score.

🎯 Based on this analysis, we automatically shortlist the three candidates with the highest match to the role.

🧠 When necessary, our human team may perform an additional manual review to ensure no strong profile is missed.

The process is transparent, skills-based, and free of bias — focusing solely on your fit for the role. Once the shortlist is completed, we share it directly with the company that owns the job opening. The final decision and next steps (such as interviews or additional assessments) are then made by their internal hiring team.

Thank you for your interest!

By submitting an application to this posting, the applicant acknowledges that Jobgether will process their personal data as necessary to evaluate their candidacy, provide feedback, and, when appropriate, share relevant information with potential employers. Such processing is carried out on the basis of legitimate interest and pre-contractual measures in accordance with applicable data protection laws. The applicant may exercise their rights of access, rectification, erasure, and objection at any time as provided under the GDPR.

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