Senior Backend Engineer – Platform

Jobtailor; Frankfurt; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior Backend/Platform Engineer to build and operate our data and application stack on Google Cloud in Frankfurt. You will own Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, and drive CI/CD pipelines across dev, test and production.

You will develop backend services in Python, design clean APIs, and build production data pipelines on BigQuery, focusing on security, IAM, and scalable architecture.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years in backend or platform engineering with production GCP experience.
• Strong Python and API design skills.
• Hands-on data engineering on BigQuery.
• Solid DevOps with Terraform and CI/CD.
• Knowledge of cloud security and IAM.

Aufgaben

• Build and operate our platform on Google Cloud.
• Own Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop backend services in Python and design clean APIs.
• Build production data pipelines on BigQuery.
• Shape scalable platform architecture with clean separation of concerns.
• Work within security and IAM standards.

Kenntnisse

Backend engineering

Platform engineering

Python

API design

DevOps

Cloud security

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

Containerization

BigQuery

Secret Manager

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

Build and operate our platform on Google Cloud (BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Scheduler, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager). Own Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, plus CI/CD pipelines and clean promotion across dev, test and production. Develop backend services in Python, design clean APIs, and integrate with internal and third-party systems. Build production data pipelines on BigQuery: partitioning, cost and performance tuning, scheduled queries, batch and streaming workloads. Shape a scalable, maintainable platform architecture with clean separation of concerns. Work within security and IAM standards suited to regulated financial institutions: GCP IAM, RBAC and SSO, audit logging, Binary Authorization, VPC Service Controls.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate our platform on Google Cloud (BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Scheduler, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager).
• Own Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, plus CI/CD pipelines and clean promotion across dev, test and production.
• Develop backend services in Python, design clean APIs, and integrate with internal and third-party systems.
• Build production data pipelines on BigQuery: partitioning, cost and performance tuning, scheduled queries, batch and streaming workloads.
• Shape a scalable, maintainable platform architecture with clean separation of concerns.
• Work within security and IAM standards suited to regulated financial institutions: GCP IAM, RBAC and SSO, audit logging, Binary Authorization, VPC Service Controls.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend or platform engineering, with production experience on Google Cloud.
• Strong Python and clean API and service design.
• Hands-on data engineering on BigQuery.
• Solid DevOps practice: Terraform, CI/CD, containerized workloads.
• Practical depth in cloud security and IAM: identity, access control, audit logging.
• Fluent German (C1 or higher) and fluent English.
• Big plus: background with regulated financial institutions or a comparable regulated setting.