Senior Backend Engineer – Cloud, IaC & DevEx

X, The Moonshot Factory; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Equity

Medical Coverage

Dental Coverage

Vision Coverage

Paid Time Off

Flexible Hybrid Work Model

401(k) With Employer Contribution

Professional Development

Job summary

X, The Moonshot Factory is building and maintaining internal platforms, CLI tools, and automated infra to help engineering teams deploy and scale services securely.

We focus on improving developer workflows, establishing templates and best practices, and delivering dashboards, alerting, and tracing for production health. Candidates need strong backend experience and cloud-native architecture skills.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least five years of backend programming experience and three years with Google Cloud Platform.
• Expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code tools, and CI/CD; experience improving developer workflows and mentoring teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain internal platforms, CLI tools, and automated infrastructure to help engineering teams deploy and scale services securely.
• Improve developer workflows and establish service templates and best practices.
• Provide dashboards, alerting, and tracing tools to support production health.

Skills

Backend programming

Google Cloud Platform

Docker

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Developer Experience

Internal API design

Cloud-native architecture

Technical mentorship

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Terragrunt

Pulumi

Helm

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Job description

X, The Moonshot Factory is building and maintaining internal platforms, CLI tools, and automated infra to help engineering teams deploy and scale services securely.

We focus on improving developer workflows, establishing templates and best practices, and delivering dashboards, alerting, and tracing for production health. Candidates need strong backend experience and cloud-native architecture skills.