Senior Platform Engineer: Backend & Data Services

Evolving Solution Services; Round Rock, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Knowmadics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and deliver backend and data platform services for high-volume telemetry and analytics workloads. You will build APIs, data pipelines, and distributed workers, aligning with secure, cloud-native deployments for air-gapped environments.

You will lead platform initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate with frontend, ML, and infra teams to ensure robust, observable systems with scalable storage and processing capabilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend, platform, data, or distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in at least one production backend language - Go or Python experience is strongly preferred
• Experience designing distributed services and asynchronous job-processing systems, including concurrency, retries, idempotency, failure recovery, and horizontal scaling
• Experience designing and implementing production APIs using Protobuf/gRPC, including versioning, compatibility, authentication, and authorization
• Strong relational database knowledge, including relational data modeling, schema migrations, referential integrity, query design, indexing, and performance tuning
• Experience with S3-compatible object storage and large analytical, lakehouse, ETL, or time-series data systems
• Experience packaging, deploying, and operating containerized services using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and automated CI/CD workflows
• Practical experience with production security and reliability, including IAM, RBAC, secrets management, access controls, audit logging, observability, testing, and incident troubleshooting
• Demonstrated ability to translate architecture and product requirements into incremental implementation plans, production code, and clear technical documentation
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work independently while providing technical leadership and mentorship
• Minimum education requirement - High School Diploma
• Eligible to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance - U.S. Citizenship required

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of core platform services
• Build versioned API and service contracts using Protobuf/gRPC
• Implement and maintain database schemas for data management and application state
• Implement and optimize ingest workflows for massive unstructured time-series and telemetry datasets
• Build horizontally scalable asynchronous workers and distributed job queues for data ingest and export
• Implement secure data upload, download, and object-management workflows
• Establish automated unit, integration, contract, load, and failure-mode testing, perform troubleshooting, quality assurance, and production support (SRE-lite)
• Implement platform observability, including log aggregation, metrics, engineering dashboards, alerting, and user-visible job status and error information
• Collaborate with frontend, machine learning, product and infrastructure teams
• Review code, mentor engineers, and ensure platform implementations comply with security requirements, industry standards, and company policies

Skills

Go or Python

Distributed systems

Protobuf/gRPC

Cloud-native deployments

SRE-lite testing

Leadership & mentorship

Education

BS/MS in a relevant field

High School Diploma

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

CI/CD tooling

S3-compatible storage

Job description

Knowmadics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and deliver backend and data platform services for high-volume telemetry and analytics workloads. You will build APIs, data pipelines, and distributed workers, aligning with secure, cloud-native deployments for air-gapped environments.

You will lead platform initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate with frontend, ML, and infra teams to ensure robust, observable systems with scalable storage and processing capabilities.