Senior Backend Engineer — Remote Cloud Microservices

Arch Systems; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Health, dental, vision benefits

Equity

Job summary

Plume is seeking a backend engineer to develop scalable, high-performance systems powering customer-facing products and internal platforms. You will partner with Product and design teams to ship features rapidly while maintaining architectural integrity.

The role emphasizes building reliable APIs, data pipelines, and secure, observable services across AWS/GCP/Azure with Kubernetes. Remote-friendly, competitive compensation, equity, and benefits available.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Scala, Go, or Java and Python.
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Fundamental understanding of computer networking, operating systems, and databases.
• Hands-on expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Familiarity with data engineering (ETL pipelines, real-time streaming with Kafka/Pulsar, batch processing).
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB).
• Solid knowledge of CI/CD, testing frameworks, and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK).
• Strong problem-solving skills in an agile, squad-based environment.

Responsibilities

• API Development: Design, implement, and maintain RESTful and gRPC APIs powering internal and external applications.
• Cloud Microservices: Architect and deploy scalable microservices in AWS/GCP/Azure using Kubernetes and modern DevOps practices.
• Data Pipelines: Build real-time and batch data pipelines with high observability and performance.
• Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional squads to deliver features end-to-end.
• System Reliability: Optimize services for scalability, resilience, and high availability.
• Engineering Excellence: Contribute to architecture discussions and drive CI/CD and testing best practices.
• Security: Integrate security and compliance into backend systems and data workflows.

Skills

Scala/Go/Java

Python

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

SQL/NoSQL databases

Tools

AWS/GCP/Azure

Docker

Kafka/Pulsar

Job description

Plume is seeking a backend engineer to develop scalable, high-performance systems powering customer-facing products and internal platforms. You will partner with Product and design teams to ship features rapidly while maintaining architectural integrity.

The role emphasizes building reliable APIs, data pipelines, and secure, observable services across AWS/GCP/Azure with Kubernetes. Remote-friendly, competitive compensation, equity, and benefits available.