Senior Backend Architect - Orchestration Platform

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited; California (MO); On-site; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical

Dental

401K

Flexible work arrangement

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited, a fast-growing infrastructure software company, seeks a Backend Architect to own the orchestration backend and abstraction model. You will drive scalability, define service boundaries, and translate ambiguous requirements into clear designs for production teams.

Responsibilities include setting API contracts, data models, and event flows across backend services and agent fleets, while mentoring via code reviews and documentation improvements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building backend systems, including 3+ years leading architecture or technical direction on a significant system
• Hands-on experience designing and operating distributed systems in production
• Turn ambiguous requirements into designs with clear documentation
• Experience with systems that manage infrastructure state: orchestration platforms, configuration management, device management, or similar
• Production experience with Go and Node.js
• REST, gRPC, and protobuf API design
• Databases across MariaDB/MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis
• Message brokers, particularly NATS/JetStream
• Strong Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD foundations

Responsibilities

• Own the backend architecture of the orchestration controller and API contracts
• Define the abstraction model mapping network concepts to vendor fabrics
• Drive scale decisions to support orders-of-magnitude growth
• Translate high-level product requirements into concrete designs and docs
• Lead design and code reviews to raise engineering standards

Skills

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

Go

Node.js

REST

gRPC

protobuf

MariaDB/MySQL

MongoDB

Redis

NATS/JetStream

Linux

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Tools

NATS/JetStream

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited, a fast-growing infrastructure software company, seeks a Backend Architect to own the orchestration backend and abstraction model. You will drive scalability, define service boundaries, and translate ambiguous requirements into clear designs for production teams.

Responsibilities include setting API contracts, data models, and event flows across backend services and agent fleets, while mentoring via code reviews and documentation improvements.