Senior Backend Engineer — Cloud, Distributed Systems, Observability

WP Engine; Województwo pomorskie; On-site; PLN 244,000 - 336,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company stock options

Health benefits

Pension match

Life insurance

Multisport card

Disability & sick leave

Employee assistance program

Generous vacation

Floating holiday

Wellness days

Home office stipend

Career development

Job summary

WP Engine is seeking a backend-focused engineer to shape and scale our global cloud infrastructure. You will own services from design to observability, balancing reliability with performance in a fast-paced environment.

Deep fundamentals in distributed systems and cloud-native tech are essential, with Go/Python experience and a willingness to learn new languages. You will build APIs, orchestrate services, and contribute to CI/CD, IaC, and security practices across the platform, working across

Qualifications

• Backend engineering with focus on building scalable services.
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud-native tech.
• Strong CI/CD, IaC, and observability skills.
• Familiarity with security basics and software documentation.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement backend capabilities for high-scale cloud infra.
• Develop and integrate APIs using established service patterns.
• Work with relational data stores and data access patterns.
• Contribute to event-driven workflows and asynchronous processing.
• Operate and support services across cloud environments and runtimes.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go/Python

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Observability

Security basics

Engineering practices

AI-assisted engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Datadog

GCP/AWS

Job description

WP Engine is seeking a backend-focused engineer to shape and scale our global cloud infrastructure. You will own services from design to observability, balancing reliability with performance in a fast-paced environment.

Deep fundamentals in distributed systems and cloud-native tech are essential, with Go/Python experience and a willingness to learn new languages. You will build APIs, orchestrate services, and contribute to CI/CD, IaC, and security practices across the platform, working across