Senior Backend Engineer – Platform, Reliability

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of Azure infrastructure from start to finish, encompassing deployment, architecture, services, and associated costs.

• Strengthen the existing infrastructure while codifying new elements.

• Maintain a streamlined architecture leveraging managed services.

• Implement observability across services and third-party APIs through metrics, logs, traces, and alerts.

• Establish criteria for platform health and create corresponding dashboards.

• Set up alerting mechanisms and on-call processes to detect issues proactively, before they impact clients.

• Analyze production latency issues, timeouts, and dependency failures.

• Enhance platform security and reliability through hardening measures.

• Develop incident response protocols and SLA practices.

• Ensure audit readiness for certifications including SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

• Collaborate with the engineering team to deliver product features and integrations.

• Offer production debugging support.

• Mentor engineers and refine team practices for platform operations.

• Work closely with the CTO and the broader founding team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in building and managing backend services in a production environment, with genuine ownership of infrastructure, deployments, and incidents.

• Proven experience in diagnosing latency spikes, timeouts, and unreliable dependencies while identifying root causes.

• Strong practical experience in running production workloads on Azure.

• Familiarity with instrumenting services using tracing, structured logging, and metrics, preferably with OpenTelemetry or similar tools.

• Infrastructure-as-code mentality; prefer codifying infrastructure over manual console interactions.

• Security-first approach that encompasses secrets management, access control, and compliance considerations.

• Proficient in writing production code using TypeScript/Node.js.

• A pragmatic mindset towards selecting simple yet effective configurations.

• Passion for mentoring junior engineers and establishing operational standards for the platform.

🏝️ Benefits

• Permanent employment (Unbefristeter Arbeitsvertrag).

• 6-month probationary period.

• 40 hours per week.

• 30 days of annual leave.

• Option to work fully remotely or from the office in Düsseldorf.

• Engaging offsite events where the team collaborates and enjoys recreational activities.

• One-time allowance for enhancing your home office setup.

• Subsidized membership for Urban Sports Club.

• Provision of laptop and work equipment.

• 30 days of PTO plus local holidays.

• Opportunity to gain firsthand experience in building a rapidly growing tech startup.

• Supportive colleagues and a positive collaborative environment.

• Steep learning curve with a diverse range of interesting projects and technologies.