Senior Backend Engineer (Platform Operations)

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with a strong operations focus to build and operate the backend of our distributed radar platform. You will work across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, databases, messaging systems, and observability, with a strong emphasis on reliability and sound engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services for ingesting, processing, and distributing data from distributed sensor nodes
• Build and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows
• Establish and operate development, staging, and production environments
• Design systems that degrade gracefully and recover from partial failures
• Operate and improve databases, messaging systems, and other stateful infrastructure
• Build metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting for the platform
• Automate infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and cloud-native tooling
• Define backend architecture and drive engineering practices, mentoring engineers as the team grows

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of professional experience building and operating backend or distributed systems
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, Linux, and production failure modes
• Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Go, Rust, C++, or Python
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, Docker, Kubernetes, or comparable container orchestration platforms
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and production deployment workflows
• Operational experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, including performance tuning, migrations, backups, and recovery
• Experience with real-time or high-throughput data processing using messaging or streaming systems such as Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, or similar

Nice to Have

• Experience operating production systems across multiple cloud providers, on-premises, and edge environments
• Experience with distributed edge or sensor systems
• Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
• Experience designing or operating authentication and authorization systems
• Experience with geospatial or time-series data
• Knowledge of database replication, high availability, and disaster recovery
• German language skills are beneficial but not required

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package including VSOP participation
• High autonomy and influence on architecture, infrastructure, and tooling
• Direct collaboration with radar, signal processing, and product teams
• Short decision paths
• Flexible hybrid working model
• Office location in Dresden, Germany