Senior Backend Engineer, Cloud-Native Platforms

Truveta; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great benefits package

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401K plan

Professional development & training

Flexible work hours

Generous parental leave

Team activities

Job summary

Truveta in Seattle is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Backend Services to design, build and operate production-grade backend services that power healthcare intelligence. You will own services end to end, from API design through deployment, monitoring, and security, collaborating across platform, data, and AI-enabled workflows.

The role emphasizes scalable, secure cloud-native systems, experience with Python, async patterns, Docker and Kubernetes, and integrating AI/LLM workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with backend services or platform infrastructure.
• Designed, built, deployed, debugged, and operated backend services in production.
• Strong Python backend engineering experience with async programming and API design.
• Hands-on with cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI) and AI workflow patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade backend services and APIs.
• Own services end to end from design to deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Improve deployment, observability, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate across platform, ML, data, and product teams on scalable solutions.

Skills

Backend services ownership

Python backend engineering

Cloud-native platforms

Docker/Kubernetes

Observability & reliability

Security by design

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure Pipelines

JFrog

OpenAI API integration

Job description

Truveta in Seattle is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Backend Services to design, build and operate production-grade backend services that power healthcare intelligence. You will own services end to end, from API design through deployment, monitoring, and security, collaborating across platform, data, and AI-enabled workflows.

The role emphasizes scalable, secure cloud-native systems, experience with Python, async patterns, Docker and Kubernetes, and integrating AI/LLM workflows.