Staff Backend & Platform Engineer: Scale & Reliability

Apex Systems; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Employee stock purchase program

401K with company match

Health Savings Account

Employee Assistance Program

Discount programs

Job summary

Apex Systems in Austin, Texas is seeking a Staff Engineer specializing in Backend, DevOps, and Platform Engineering. This role involves leading the architectural direction and ensuring the operational excellence of our backend systems.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in backend engineering, DevOps practices, and significant experiencE operating large-scale production systems. If you have the skills in Java or Python and advanced cloud platform experience, we want to hear from you!

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in backend engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps.
• Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Strong knowledge of incident management and root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture for scalable backend systems and platform services.
• Own the end-to-end reliability of production systems.
• Establish best practices for CI/CD and release engineering.

Skills

Backend engineering expertise in Java or Python

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipeline experience

Cloud platform experience (Azure preferred)

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

Job description

Apex Systems in Austin, Texas is seeking a Staff Engineer specializing in Backend, DevOps, and Platform Engineering. This role involves leading the architectural direction and ensuring the operational excellence of our backend systems.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in backend engineering, DevOps practices, and significant experiencE operating large-scale production systems. If you have the skills in Java or Python and advanced cloud platform experience, we want to hear from you!