Senior Backend Engineer - Cloud, APIs & PLM Integrations

Acuity; Conyers (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity Brands is seeking a senior backend engineer to design, build, and operate cloud services within the PLM ecosystem. You will work on integrations, data models, and AI-assisted tooling while maintaining production readiness and code quality.

You will own deployments, contribute to API design, and collaborate with product teams to deliver robust software in a fast-paced environment. This role emphasizes learning PLM data and delivering end-to-end solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and running production backend software.
• Strong command of code-level design patterns and SOLID principles.
• Proficiency in C#/.NET; willingness to work with other languages.
• Production cloud experience; Azure preferred, AWS/GCP acceptable.
• Containers and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Solid grasp of API integration: pagination, retries, idempotency.
• Data modeling in relational and document stores.
• OIDC/token concepts; infrastructure as code and pipelines needed.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and run backend services deployed to Kubernetes on Azure.
• Build integrations between PLM and downstream systems via APIs you do not control.
• Work directly in the PLM platform: OData and REST, configuration, Java extensions.
• Own deployment path: infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes manifests.
• Write automated tests as part of shipping.
• Instrument services so production problems are found via telemetry.
• Review peers' code and maintain a high quality bar.
• Collaborate with product owners to turn problems into working software.
• Leverage AI tooling to improve implementation, debugging, testing, and docs.

Skills

Backend software architecture

C#/.NET

Azure cloud

Kubernetes

API integration

SOLID principles

CI/CD pipelines

Unit testing

Telemetry and monitoring

Multi-language backend familiarity

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

OpenTelemetry

Application Insights

Grafana

Azure DevOps

Job description

Acuity Brands is seeking a senior backend engineer to design, build, and operate cloud services within the PLM ecosystem. You will work on integrations, data models, and AI-assisted tooling while maintaining production readiness and code quality.

You will own deployments, contribute to API design, and collaborate with product teams to deliver robust software in a fast-paced environment. This role emphasizes learning PLM data and delivering end-to-end solutions.