Platform Backend Engineer - Scalable Cloud Infra

Mixpeek; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Chroma is seeking a backend and infrastructure-focused engineer to help build and operate its developer cloud in a fast-moving AI ecosystem. The role emphasizes ownership of production-grade Python, Rust, or Go services and deep expertise in modern cloud-native tooling.

The candidate will design, deploy, and maintain high-availability systems using Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform/Pulumi), and observability stacks, while improving build, test, and deployment pipelines across major cloud providers.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of writing and owning production Python, Rust, or Go services.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and continuously improve Chroma's developer cloud.
• Contribute to the design and operation of a reliable, scalable distributed system.
• Work with the backend and infrastructure teams to enhance deployment pipelines.

Skills

Python

Rust

Go

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Prometheus

Grafana

Jaeger

Honeycomb

Job description

Chroma is seeking a backend and infrastructure-focused engineer to help build and operate its developer cloud in a fast-moving AI ecosystem. The role emphasizes ownership of production-grade Python, Rust, or Go services and deep expertise in modern cloud-native tooling.

The candidate will design, deploy, and maintain high-availability systems using Kubernetes, IaC (Terraform/Pulumi), and observability stacks, while improving build, test, and deployment pipelines across major cloud providers.