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Senior Backend Engineer

Fractal Box

Senior Backend Engineer

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Remote

Hiring Remotely in United States

30K-80K Annually

Senior level

Remote

Hiring Remotely in United States

30K-80K Annually

Senior level

Design and build scalable backend systems, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. Own CI/CD, containerization, databases, and reliability; collaborate with tech leads to deliver secure, production-grade solutions for startups in a fully remote environment.

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FractalBox is a boutique development studio providing fractional CTO & CISO services led by a team of experienced ex-founders and Tech Leads from Animoca Brands, Mon Studio, PALO IT and hyper growth startups.

Senior Backend Engineer - Fully Remote

We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our fast-paced, fully remote team. You will work directly with experienced Tech Leads to architect and build scalable data and cloud infrastructure for world-class startups.

We recruit generalist who has extensive experience in backend and expertise in either

Data Engineering: Architect high-availability batch/streaming data pipelines and scalable data models.
DevSecOps / SRE: Architect secure, scalable cloud infrastructure (IaC). Own and optimize CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting.

Requirements

3-8+ years in a Backend, Data, DevOps or SRE role.

Proficient in TypeScript/Node.js and Python
Extensive experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Production-level experience with Docker, CI/CD, and SQL/NoSQL databases.
High autonomy: Proven ability to take full ownership in a fully remote environment.

Strongly Preferred (Bonus Points)

Experience with Apache Kafka (especially Confluent Cloud).
Deep expertise with IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi) and DevSecOps workflow
Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes (K8s).
Experience building infrastructure for MLOps / AI Evals pipelines

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