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Senior Software Engineer, Backend & Operations

Design highly available, cloud-native systems and ship product features at the intersection of backend and infrastructure operations.

RemoteFull-time25-30 days vacation

About the role

Nhost is a remote-first company. While prior experience working remotely isn't required, we are looking for polyglot engineers who perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy. This role is at the intersection of product features, focusing on the backend, and infrastructure operations. This is an incredible opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the future of application development.

What will you do?

  • Design highly available, scalable, cloud-native systems that are easily observed and managed
  • Provide ongoing maintenance and support of internal tools, improve system health and reliability
  • Lay the groundwork for robust infrastructure monitoring and alerting
  • Build new product features, focusing on the backend. For example, you might implement the backend of a new system for serving application logs and metrics
  • Write code mostly in Go

What are we looking for?

  • 4+ years of relevant experience developing, testing, and shipping well-engineered code (preferably with Go)
  • Experience with testing, automating, operating, and troubleshooting production systems
  • Experience deploying and operating containers and related technologies
  • Experience designing and building REST APIs
  • Comfortable using AI coding tools and agents as part of your everyday workflow
  • Excellent communication skills

Nice to haves

  • BSc or MSc in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field
  • Experience building developer tools and open-source projects
  • Experience with cloud providers, preferably AWS (EKS, Lambda, etc)
  • Terraform or Pulumi as IaC
  • Experience with PostgreSQL

What we offer

  • A generous salary and equity package based on relevant experience
  • The opportunity to disrupt the application development space
  • Autonomy and ownership
  • Remote
  • Open and transparent company culture
  • Equipment of choice, and yearly allowance for books and education

We believe that by equipping people with the best tools to solve their own problems, we can tackle the world's problems better, together.

How to apply

Does this role sound like a good fit? Email us at careers@nhost.io.

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