Senior Platform Backend Engineer
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Plus PowerEnergy Storage
Flexible, work from home or hybrid work from Plus Power’s officesFull-TimeSenior
SalaryAt least 150,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerPythonSQLKubernetesCI/CDTerraform
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience across platform engineering, backend engineering, data engineering, CloudOps, or SRE roles.
- Strong backend development experience, including building and operating production services or internal platforms.
- Significant hands-on experience with AWS (VPC, IAM, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3).
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation).
- Experience operating containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes in production environments.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD, Git-based workflows, and automated testing.
- Strong operational mindset, including comfort owning production systems and participating in on-call rotations.
- Experience working with relational databases and data-intensive systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional environment.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services, internal platforms, and shared infrastructure that enable data pipelines, analytics, and application workloads.
- Apply a strong focus on CI pipeline design, operational reliability, and cloud cost awareness as first-class engineering concerns.
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and testable production code, primarily in Python.
- Partner with application and data engineers to define service boundaries, APIs, data contracts, and operational requirements.
- Architect and operate AWS-based, cloud-native systems with an emphasis on reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to manage cloud assets and operational workflows.
- Enable and support data platforms, analytics systems, and ML-adjacent workloads.
- Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines that test, validate, and deploy code.
- Establish and maintain observability standards using metrics, logs, and alerts.
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead root cause analysis.
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