Staff Backend Engineer: Scalable Cloud for Scientific Labs

Emerald Cloud Lab; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Emerald Cloud Lab is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to build scalable backend services powering remote laboratory experiments. You will work on Go, Python, or Rust services on AWS, with Docker/Kubernetes, and contribute to product direction while ensuring reliability and security.

You will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and designers to deliver impactful features, participate in on-call rotations, and help shape engineering practices across the platform.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience providing backend development to products and enterprise software.
• 6+ years in Cloud or AWS hands on development.
• Experience with database technologies (SQL or NoSQL).
• Experience working with startups or small growing companies.
• Full life cycle experience with software product development.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop highly scalable backend services, ensuring performance and security.
• Collaborate with designers, scientists and engineers to deliver products solving real challenges experienced in labs by our users.
• Help set technical and product direction, collaborating with the team to determine the future of the product, what features to build, and how to build them.
• Ensure continual, high-availability operation of our services using modern reliability practices, including detailed observability and participation in an on-call rotation.
• Participate in code reviews and troubleshoot any performance or security issues.
• Advocate for healthy and maintainable software practices.

Skills

Backend development

Go

Python

Rust

Cloud/AWS

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub

Travis CI

Job description

Emerald Cloud Lab is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to build scalable backend services powering remote laboratory experiments. You will work on Go, Python, or Rust services on AWS, with Docker/Kubernetes, and contribute to product direction while ensuring reliability and security.

You will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and designers to deliver impactful features, participate in on-call rotations, and help shape engineering practices across the platform.