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
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