Senior Cloud-Native Engineer (Go/Python, AWS & CI/CD)

ExTrac; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Options

Health insurance

401(k)

Education budget

Generous leave

Mission-driven work

Job summary

ExTrac is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in the Washington, DC area to own backend services and the infrastructure they run on. You will ship Go or Python services, harden deployment pipelines, and contribute to scalable, compliant systems.

You will work across US and UK teams on cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and security, with opportunities to influence architecture and outcomes in a mission-driven, decision-intelligence environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience across backend development and cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency in building microservices using Go or Python.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automating deployment workflows.
• Working experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, databases, and software engineering patterns.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including overlap with UK hours.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain ExTrac's AWS infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code.
• Deploy, scale, and troubleshoot containerised workloads in production.
• Develop and own Go and Python microservices that support data collection and processing.
• Design and maintain APIs used by internal teams and customers.
• Contribute to system design and architecture discussions with evidence from operations.
• Ensure reliability, observability, and security across services and infra.

Skills

Go

Python

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Prometheus

Grafana

Argo

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Argo

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

ExTrac is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in the Washington, DC area to own backend services and the infrastructure they run on. You will ship Go or Python services, harden deployment pipelines, and contribute to scalable, compliant systems.

You will work across US and UK teams on cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and security, with opportunities to influence architecture and outcomes in a mission-driven, decision-intelligence environment.