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Join our founding team as a Founding Backend DevOps Engineer building scalable enterprise developer intelligence platforms. You'll architect distributed systems that power our AI-driven recommendation engines and NLP services, working directly with founders to establish the technical foundation for rapid growth.

Responsibilities

Design and implement distributed microservices architecture
Build robust data pipelines using Kafka
Architect PostgreSQL database schemas optimized for enterprise scale
Maintain and operate our K8s Cluster and Infrastructure (IaC)
Develop scalable backend APIs that integrate AI/ML services with enterprise development tools and workflows
Establish product development processes and engineering practices for rapid iteration and deployment
Drive solution-oriented approaches to complex technical challenges in enterprise software integration
Shipping product features to customers and owning their end-to-end delivery
Active participation in building a positive, inclusive, and learning-driven team environment.
Responsible for maintaining quality, performance, and reliability standards

Requirements

5+ years building production distributed systems and microservices architectures
Real world experience using Kafka and protocol buffers for service to service communication
Advanced PostgreSQL skills including performance optimization, indexing strategies, and complex queries
Motivation to work in a fast-paced startup environment with rapid development cycles
DevOps experience including CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud deployment
Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS, or GCP) for scalable infrastructure
TypeScript expertise for full-stack development and modern frontend frameworks (desirable)
Event-driven architecture patterns and streaming data processing at scale (desirable)
Enterprise B2B technical integration and customer-facing API design (desirable)
Excellent communicator with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly in written and verbal form

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