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Staff Backend Engineer
Emerald Cloud Lab. Design and develop highly scalable backend services with performance and security .
Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive experience in backend development, particularly with Go, Python, or Rust, and has a strong understanding of cloud technologies such as AWS. Proven ability to design scalable services, ensure high availability, and advocate for maintainable software practices.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Backend DevelopmentCloud DevelopmentDatabase TechnologiesContainerization (Kubernetes, Docker)Distributed Systems
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Hard Skills
GoPythonRustSQLNoSQLAWSKubernetesDockerCI/CD PipelinesObservability
Soft Skills
Problem-SolvingAttention to Detail
Tools & Technologies
Cloud Infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure)Hybrid Object/Graph Multi-Tenant Data StoreReal-Time Sensor Data ProcessingSimulation and Analysis Services
Industry Keywords
Laboratory ChallengesSoftware Product DevelopmentHigh-Availability OperationReliability Practices
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesNoSQLPythonRustSQLGo
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Design and develop highly scalable backend services with performance and security
- Collaborate with designers, scientists, and engineers to deliver products solving laboratory challenges
- Help set technical and product direction, including determining product features and implementation approaches
- Ensure continual high-availability operation of services using reliability practices, detailed observability, and on-call participation
- Participate in code reviews and troubleshoot performance or security issues
- Advocate for healthy and maintainable software practices
- Improve a hybrid object/graph multi-tenant data store for biology and chemistry experiments
- Develop services to gather real-time sensor data from laboratories for operator feedback and cloud processing
- Build services to safely distribute and execute simulation, analysis, and testing code in SLL
- Work with the Scientific Development team on data storage, retrieval, and search functions in SLL
Requirements
What you’ll need- 8+ years of experience providing backend development to products and enterprise software
- 6+ years of hands-on Cloud or AWS development
- Experience with database technologies (SQL or NoSQL)
- Experience working with startups or small growing companies
- Full life cycle experience with software product development
- Preferred: Experience with Kubernetes and Docker for containerization
- Preferred: Experience with distributed systems
- Preferred: Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Preferred: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern build tooling
- Preferred: Exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), containers, and observability
- Backend services experience with Go, Python, or Rust
- Experience with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is relevant to the stated technology stack
Benefits
Comp & perks- On-call rotation participation
- Continuous integration and agile development practices
- Opportunity to contribute to software engineering practices and technical/product direction