Cloud‑First Backend Reliability Engineer I

Visa Hunt; Mexico; On-site; PHP 6,785,934 - 9,870,449; Full time

Job summary

Visa Hunt is seeking a Backend Engineer to architect and develop backend services, tooling, and infrastructure that power scalable workflows across engineering teams.

You will leverage AWS, automate processes, and strengthen reliability, with opportunities to mentor others and shape deployment practices in a collaborative, ownership-driven culture.

This role emphasizes fault tolerance, observability, and efficient incident response as part of an ongoing modernization effort.

Qualifications

• H hands-on expertise with AWS cloud services (Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, API Gateway).
• Strong proficiency in Node.js, Python, or similar backend languages.
• Experience implementing operational tooling, observability, and reliability patterns.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, testing frameworks, and version-control best practices.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with a focus on production systems and reliability.
• Ability to operate independently and drive impact with minimal high-level direction.

Responsibilities

• Backend & Infrastructure Ownership: Design, build, and maintain backend tools, services, and internal platforms that support operational workflows and enable high‑reliability systems.
• Service Reliability & Automation: Implement automation for processes such as incident triage, RCA workflows, remediation pipelines, deployment improvements, and operational runbooks.
• Cloud‑First Engineering: Leverage AWS services (Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch, etc.) to build resilient, scalable, and cost‑efficient systems.
• Cross‑Team Collaboration: Partner with Support, Product, and Engineering teams to understand pain points, streamline workflows, and drive operational improvements.
• Engineering Culture: Promote best practices in code quality, architecture, security, and deployment; mentor junior engineers; contribute to high‑quality code reviews and design discussions.
• Reliability Practices: Participate in on‑call rotations and post‑incident reviews to improve system reliability and response procedures.

Skills

AWS

Node.js

Python

Observability

CI/CD

SRE principles

Troubleshooting

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Job description

Visa Hunt is seeking a Backend Engineer to architect and develop backend services, tooling, and infrastructure that power scalable workflows across engineering teams.

You will leverage AWS, automate processes, and strengthen reliability, with opportunities to mentor others and shape deployment practices in a collaborative, ownership-driven culture.

This role emphasizes fault tolerance, observability, and efficient incident response as part of an ongoing modernization effort.