Senior Backend Engineer — Cloud, IoT & Resilient Systems

Priva; De Lier; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Flexible working hours

30 vacation days

Travel allowance €0.23/km

Pension plan

Personal development budget

On-site gym and facilities

Job summary

Priva, located in De Lier, is building the next generation of cloud-connected backend platforms for sustainable automation. You will drive architecture for high availability and long-term maintainability, guiding teams on distributed systems and reliability.

The role demands deep C#/.NET experience, Azure expertise, and a focus on observability, deployment practices, and security-by-design across services.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building backend systems using C# and .NET.
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production.
• Practical experience with Akka.NET and actor-based architectures.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture on Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with event-driven systems, message queues, background processing, and distributed workflows.
• Strong knowledge of API design, versioning, authentication, and authorization.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, Redis.
• Good understanding of observability, including structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting and dashboards.
• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, and production operations.
• Strong engineering judgment and the ability to simplify complex technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Translate product and system requirements into scalable backend designs.
• Lead the design and development of backend services using C# 12 and .NET 8.
• Define backend architecture for cloud-connected products.
• Review critical technical designs and code, especially in areas that affect reliability, security, scalability, or maintainability.
• Design solutions with a focus on high availability, resilience and long-term maintainability.
• Guide teams on distributed-system concerns.
• Collaborate closely with our internal and external teams including hardware, firmware and QA.
• Improve engineering practices around deployment and monitoring.
• Support root‑cause analysis and drive durable corrective actions after production issues.
• Mentor engineers and help raise the technical maturity of the backend engineering organization.
• Make pragmatic technical trade‑offs between speed, quality, cost, risk, and long‑term maintainability.

Skills

C# & .NET

Distributed systems

Azure

Akka.NET

Observability

CI/CD

Security-by-design

API design

Problem solving

Tools

Azure SQL

PostgreSQL

Cosmos DB

Redis

Docker

Bicep

OpenTelemetry

Application Insights

Azure Monitor

Job description

Priva, located in De Lier, is building the next generation of cloud-connected backend platforms for sustainable automation. You will drive architecture for high availability and long-term maintainability, guiding teams on distributed systems and reliability.

The role demands deep C#/.NET experience, Azure expertise, and a focus on observability, deployment practices, and security-by-design across services.