Senior Backend Engineer, HPC & Cloud Platform Services

Beacon Technologies; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Technologies seeks a Backend Engineer to design and implement scalable HPC-driven backend systems for an advanced EM simulation platform. You will work across cloud, on-prem, and data-management layers, with a heavy focus on API unification, performance, and reliability.

Join a startup-minded team in Madison with hybrid onsite expectations and strong emphasis on innovation, scalable architectures, and collaboration with infrastructure and EM teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer engineering.
• Experience developing backend systems using Java, Python, and/or C++.
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms (compute, storage, networking, IAM, infrastructure automation).
• Expertise in backend service development and web API architecture.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production environments.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge and infrastructure troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools).
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tooling.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals and backend security best practices.
• Innovative Mindset: Ability to learn quickly, adapt to new challenges, and innovate in a fast-paced startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to general software development efforts, such as API unification, simulation data management (e.g., caching, syncing, storage), and scripting improvements.
• Collaborate with EM and infrastructure teams to implement simulation-specific solutions, including enhancements to back-end/scheduler integrations and Python front-end functionality.
• Improve our task pipelines through an innovative design for a web API in a multi-physical simulation context.
• Develop and maintain hybrid cloud compute and storage solutions, integrating on-premises HPC systems with modern cloud platforms.
• Optimize and manage high-performance computing clusters equipped with high-speed interconnects.

Skills

Backend development

AWS cloud platforms

API architecture

Docker & Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Linux

Infrastructure automation

Monitoring & observability

Networking & security

Innovative mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Slurm

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Beacon Technologies seeks a Backend Engineer to design and implement scalable HPC-driven backend systems for an advanced EM simulation platform. You will work across cloud, on-prem, and data-management layers, with a heavy focus on API unification, performance, and reliability.

Join a startup-minded team in Madison with hybrid onsite expectations and strong emphasis on innovation, scalable architectures, and collaboration with infrastructure and EM teams.