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Fractal Box

Senior Backend Engineer

Reposted 2 Months Ago
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
30K-80K Annually
Senior level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
30K-80K Annually
Senior level
Design and build scalable backend systems, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. Own CI/CD, containerization, databases, and reliability; collaborate with tech leads to deliver secure, production-grade solutions for startups in a fully remote environment.
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FractalBox is a boutique development studio providing fractional CTO & CISO services led by a team of experienced ex-founders and Tech Leads from Animoca Brands, Mon Studio, PALO IT and hyper growth startups.

Senior Backend Engineer - Fully Remote

We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our fast-paced, fully remote team. You will work directly with experienced Tech Leads to architect and build scalable data and cloud infrastructure for world-class startups.

We recruit generalist who has extensive experience in backend and expertise in either

  • Data Engineering: Architect high-availability batch/streaming data pipelines and scalable data models.

  • DevSecOps / SRE: Architect secure, scalable cloud infrastructure (IaC). Own and optimize CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting.

Requirements

3-8+ years in a Backend, Data, DevOps or SRE role.

  • Proficient in TypeScript/Node.js and Python

  • Extensive experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

  • Production-level experience with Docker, CI/CD, and SQL/NoSQL databases.

  • High autonomy: Proven ability to take full ownership in a fully remote environment.

Strongly Preferred (Bonus Points)

  • Experience with Apache Kafka (especially Confluent Cloud).

  • Deep expertise with IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi) and DevSecOps workflow

  • Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes (K8s).

  • Experience building infrastructure for MLOps / AI Evals pipelines

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