Senior Cloud & Backend Engineer for Brain Data Platform

Orbit Neuro Co.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Orbit Neuro Co. is building a backend platform for neural recording data, designing scalable data models, APIs, and services to ingest, store, and retrieve recordings and metadata.

The role focuses on a greenfield architecture with careful tradeoffs to balance performance, cost, and reliability. You will lead backend design decisions, implement robust data workflows, and collaborate with researchers and engineers to enable secure, efficient data access and reproducible processing.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS/EE or related field and at least five years of experience.
• Experience designing and operating backend services with modern production languages.
• Comfortable with data modeling, relational databases, SQL, APIs, and cloud object storage.
• Familiar with authentication, authorization, and credential management across boundaries.
• Able to design robust data flows and reason about consistency between services, data, and metadata.

Responsibilities

• Shape the backend architecture and select technologies to support product needs.
• Design the data model and relational database schema, including identity, configuration, provenance, relationships, indexing, and migrations.
• Build APIs and services for ingesting, storing, discovering, and retrieving recordings and metadata.
• Design authentication, authorization, and credential flows for secure access.
• Collaborate with desktop engineers on robust upload and synchronization workflows.

Skills

Backend design

SQL expertise

APIs

Cloud storage

Security/auth

Data modeling

CI/CD

Observability

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Supabase

AWS / GCP / Azure

Terraform

Docker

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Kafka

Job description

Orbit Neuro Co. is building a backend platform for neural recording data, designing scalable data models, APIs, and services to ingest, store, and retrieve recordings and metadata.

The role focuses on a greenfield architecture with careful tradeoffs to balance performance, cost, and reliability. You will lead backend design decisions, implement robust data workflows, and collaborate with researchers and engineers to enable secure, efficient data access and reproducible processing.