Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with a strong operations focus to build and operate the backend of our distributed radar platform. You will work across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, databases, messaging systems, and observability, with a strong emphasis on reliability and sound engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities

Design and build backend services for ingesting, processing, and distributing data from distributed sensor nodes

Build and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows

Establish and operate development, staging, and production environments

Design systems that degrade gracefully and recover from partial failures

Operate and improve databases, messaging systems, and other stateful infrastructure

Build metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting for the platform

Automate infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and cloud-native tooling

Define backend architecture and drive engineering practices, mentoring engineers as the team grows

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience

7+ years of professional experience building and operating backend or distributed systems

Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, Linux, and production failure modes

Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Go, Rust, C++, or Python

Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, Docker, Kubernetes, or comparable container orchestration platforms

Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and production deployment workflows

Operational experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, including performance tuning, migrations, backups, and recovery

Experience with real-time or high-throughput data processing using messaging or streaming systems such as Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, or similar

Nice to Have

Experience operating production systems across multiple cloud providers, on-premises, and edge environments

Experience with distributed edge or sensor systems

Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry

Experience designing or operating authentication and authorization systems

Experience with geospatial or time-series data

Knowledge of database replication, high availability, and disaster recovery

German language skills are beneficial but not required

What We Offer

Competitive compensation package including VSOP participation

High autonomy and influence on architecture, infrastructure, and tooling

Direct collaboration with radar, signal processing, and product teams

Short decision paths

Flexible hybrid working model

Office location in Dresden, Germany

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Xneural GmbH