Remote Platform Engineer – Backend Infra on GCP/Kubernetes

Focal Systems; Poland; Remote; PLN 407,000 - 469,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary & Stock

Paid Time Off

Team Retreats

Job summary

Focal Systems is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to own and optimize the production platform on GCP, including Kubernetes, Kafka, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and storage. You will drive cost and latency reductions while maintaining robust observability and incident response across regions.

The role requires hands-on work with Python backend services and IaC tools, ensuring the system scales to hundreds of millions of images daily. This remote role offers stock options and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Python as a software engineer, not only for scripting.
• 5+ years building and operating production backend systems on a cloud platform. GCP preferred; deep AWS or Azure experience is fine.
• Hands-on production experience operating stateful systems (Kafka, MySQL/PostgreSQL, or MongoDB).
• Kubernetes in production with autoscaling, GPU node pools and debugging misbehaving pods.
• Observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Mimir and Sentry, or equivalent.
• Terraform or another infrastructure-as-code tool.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, operation and cost of production platform on GCP: Kubernetes, Kafka, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, object storage.
• Drive measurable reductions in COGS and latency through tuning and autoscaling, report numbers.
• Read, debug and change Python backend services (FastAPI, Kafka consumers).
• Fix throughput bottlenecks like consumer lag and partition strategies.
• Rework metrics, alerts and dashboards for on-call sensing and capacity planning.
• Build tooling for cross-region data access quickly.
• Maintain infrastructure-as-code and deployment paths, coordinating with multiple teams.

Skills

Python

Backend systems

Kubernetes

Observability

Data-driven decisions

Tools

GCP

Terraform

Kafka

MySQL

Redis

Prometheus

Job description

Focal Systems is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to own and optimize the production platform on GCP, including Kubernetes, Kafka, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and storage. You will drive cost and latency reductions while maintaining robust observability and incident response across regions.

The role requires hands-on work with Python backend services and IaC tools, ensuring the system scales to hundreds of millions of images daily. This remote role offers stock options and competitive compensation.