Remote Senior Backend Cloud Engineer (Rust/Scala)

NEPSE Trading; United States; Remote; USD 120.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Healthcare

401k

Disability insurance

FSA options

Flexible PTO

Equity

Zusammenfassung

Halcyon is seeking a Senior Backend Cloud Engineer to lead backend data platform and API services. You will design, implement, and operate scalable Scala-based services, while guiding a transition to Rust and supporting Python-based security tooling. This is a remote-friendly, USA-only role within a distributed team.

You will collaborate across product and platform engineering, drive code quality and incident response, and contribute to a high-availability security product stack in the cloud.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years backend engineering in JVM-based codebases.
• Experience with Rust or guidance for migrations.
• Strong API design and data-store knowledge (Kafka, Postgres, DynamoDB, OpenSearch).

Aufgaben

• Lead design and delivery of features for data platform and public APIs.
• Drive architecture and data flow decisions with product and platform teams.
• Build scalable Scala-based backend services in production.
• Support migration of APIs from Scala to Rust and ensure continuity.
• Mentor, review code, and participate in on-call and incident response.
• Support Python-based security analysis platform and ML workflows.

Kenntnisse

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Rust

Scala

APIs

Kafka

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

OpenSearch

AWS

Kubernetes

Containerization

Tools

Databricks

ClickHouse

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Jobbeschreibung

Halcyon is seeking a Senior Backend Cloud Engineer to lead backend data platform and API services. You will design, implement, and operate scalable Scala-based services, while guiding a transition to Rust and supporting Python-based security tooling. This is a remote-friendly, USA-only role within a distributed team.

You will collaborate across product and platform engineering, drive code quality and incident response, and contribute to a high-availability security product stack in the cloud.