Senior PLM Backend Engineer – Remote (Azure/K8s)

Cayuse Holdings; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 94,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

Cayuse Holdings is seeking a Sr Software Engineer for a PLM platform. This remote US/Canada contractor role focuses on backend services, API integrations, and end-to-end ownership from design to production.

Ideal candidates have 11+ years in backend development, strong C#/.NET, Azure cloud experience, and hands-on Kubernetes, CI/CD, and IaC skills. Remote work option supports US/Canada time zones.

Qualifications

• 11+ years of experience building and supporting production backend software.
• Strong expertise in modern backend development; C#/.NET preferred.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures in Azure; AWS/GCP okay.
• Hands-on with containers and Kubernetes; strong production support.
• Solid API design with REST/OIDC and data modeling knowledge.
• Infra as code ownership with CI/CD pipelines and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate backend services and integrations for a PLM platform.
• Own end-to-end solutions from architecture through CI/CD and production support.
• Collaborate with ERP, analytics, and downstream systems via APIs.

Skills

Backend development

C#/.NET

Java/Kotlin/Go

Azure cloud

Kubernetes

REST APIs

OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect

CI/CD

IaC (Terraform/Bicep/ARM)

Observability / telemetry

Tools

Azure DevOps Pipelines

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Azure Service Bus

Job description

Cayuse Holdings is seeking a Sr Software Engineer for a PLM platform. This remote US/Canada contractor role focuses on backend services, API integrations, and end-to-end ownership from design to production.

Ideal candidates have 11+ years in backend development, strong C#/.NET, Azure cloud experience, and hands-on Kubernetes, CI/CD, and IaC skills. Remote work option supports US/Canada time zones.