Role: Back End Software Engineer
Location: Houston, TX - 2 day a week on-site role with 3 days remote - Need Local candidates
Job Description:
The Back End Software Engineer is responsible for developing the back end of a web application, handling the logic, database interactions, user authentication, configuration, etc. The Back End Software Engineer evaluates emerging technologies and provides strategic, innovative and cost-effective engineering solutions to increase the efficiency, reliability and integration of client services and operations. This person works semi-autonomously as part of a team that performs rapid prototyping of emerging technologies to solve industry-related problems.
- Develop server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensure high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end developers.
- Integrate user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side applications.
- Collaborate with front-end developers, customers, users and Product Managers to establish objectives and design functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
- Keep abreast of novel technical concepts and markets.
- Provide technical leadership and documentation to developers and stakeholders.
- Apply usability procedures and principles as defined at the project or Product Line level or through customer input.
- Build prototypes, products and systems that meet the project quality standards and requirements.
- Contribute to and support re-use through common components that are well documented and tested.
- Bachelor in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics or Applied Statistics
- 7+ years of relevant experience in software engineering or related technical fields.
This is a cloud infrastructure–focused role supporting our AI Foundations team.
Minimum experience: 7+ years
Top skill requirement: Expert-level Kubernetes
• Cloud & platform experience: Google Cloud Platform / AWS / Azure; Kubernetes-based platforms
Key responsibilities include:
- Platform architecture and implementation (Terraform, Kubernetes operators, Crossplane) on Azure
- Design and implementation of cloud-agnostic observability stacks (Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Tempo/Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Alertmanager)
- Platform security (event monitoring, detection with Falco, CIS benchmarks)
- DevOps process creation and oversight, with strong GitOps best practices
- End-user enablement through internal workshops (strong communication skills required)
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