Backend & Cloud Engineer — Scale AWS & APIs | Stock Options

Front Door Defense; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Option Plan

Flexible Friday and PTO

401K

Job summary

Front Door Defense in Los Angeles seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and optimization of backend and cloud infrastructure. This role requires expertise in coding and AWS to build high-performance services supporting their ION Factory OS for manufacturing.

The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in backend engineering, leadership skills, and a systems-thinking approach while working in a collaborative, inclusive team environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven track record of shipping production-grade backend code.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and API design.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs.
• Ensure cloud architecture supports software delivery.
• Drive reliability and improve operational best practices.

Skills

Backend coding skills in Python, Go, Node.js

AWS expertise

Systems Thinking

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Front Door Defense in Los Angeles seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and optimization of backend and cloud infrastructure. This role requires expertise in coding and AWS to build high-performance services supporting their ION Factory OS for manufacturing.

The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in backend engineering, leadership skills, and a systems-thinking approach while working in a collaborative, inclusive team environment.