Senior Backend Engineer: Cloud Infra & Security Platform

Fuel Talent LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Fuel Talent LLC in Seattle, WA is seeking a Sr. Backend Engineer to join a highly technical, hands-on team building an AI-powered platform. You will own cloud infrastructure, security, and observability, ensuring end-to-end reliability and scalability across environments.

The role emphasizes infrastructure as code, Kubernetes on AWS, Helm charts, CI/CD pipelines, and ongoing compliance initiatives, with a focus on security and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience designing reusable Terraform modules for multi-environment deployments.
• Production Kubernetes on AWS (EKS) with RDS/PostgreSQL, Redis, S3 and IAM.
• Hands-on security/compliance for SOC 2/ISO 27001 programs.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain cloud infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Own Kubernetes platform architecture and deployment tooling.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment reliability.
• Lead security, compliance, and audit tasks with auditors.
• Enhance observability with monitoring and incident response.

Skills

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Helm

Istio

HashiCorp Vault

Prometheus

Grafana

Bash

Python

RDS/PostgreSQL

Redis

S3

IAM

KMS

Route53

Load Balancers

Container Registry

SOC 2 / ISO 27001

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes (AWS EKS)

Helm charts

Istio

Vault

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Job description

Fuel Talent LLC in Seattle, WA is seeking a Sr. Backend Engineer to join a highly technical, hands-on team building an AI-powered platform. You will own cloud infrastructure, security, and observability, ensuring end-to-end reliability and scalability across environments.

The role emphasizes infrastructure as code, Kubernetes on AWS, Helm charts, CI/CD pipelines, and ongoing compliance initiatives, with a focus on security and efficiency.