Staff Backend Engineer: APIs, Cloud & Data Systems

Jobtailor; Arizona; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Arizona seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to lead design and implementation of scalable RESTful APIs and distributed systems. You will own reliability, performance, and data processing across PostgreSQL, Redis, and cloud storage.

You will drive infrastructure changes with Terraform and AWS, enhance observability, and mentor teams while shaping best practices for secure, scalable backend software.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years of backend engineering experience or equivalent depth.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of RESTful APIs and Celery workers for publishing, media processing, SSAI/VAST workflows, imports, and reporting.

Skills

Python Expertise

RESTful API Design

Celery Experience

AWS Infrastructure Experience

PostgreSQL Proficiency

GCP Experience

Redis Experience

Terraform

CI/CD

Docker

Security Best Practices

Tools

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Redis

PostgreSQL

Docker

GitHub Actions

Elastic Beanstalk

Job description

Jobtailor in Arizona seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to lead design and implementation of scalable RESTful APIs and distributed systems. You will own reliability, performance, and data processing across PostgreSQL, Redis, and cloud storage.

You will drive infrastructure changes with Terraform and AWS, enhance observability, and mentor teams while shaping best practices for secure, scalable backend software.