Senior Backend Engineer (Platform Operations)

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