Role: Senior / Lead Backend Engineer
Mode: Remote
Maintain and support production backend services, including incident triage, troubleshooting, and recovery.
Perform service upgrades, security patches, dependency updates, and cloud infrastructure migrations.
Monitor and optimize service reliability using alerts, logs, and dashboards.
Reduce alert noise, resolve technical debt, and safely decommission unused services.
Maintain runbooks, technical documentation, and service ownership records.
Strong hands-on Java backend development experience; Python is a plus.
Experience operating and maintaining distributed, high-volume production systems.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform.
Experience with PagerDuty, Grafana, PromethePromQL, or similar monitoring tools.
Strong incident management, troubleshooting, and production support skills.
Excellent communication, prioritization, and cross-team collaboration skills.
Experience supporting large-scale systems serving millions of users.
Experience with AI coding tools, service migrations, and technical debt reduction.
A senior backend engineer with strong Java skills and production operations experience who can independently troubleshoot, maintain, and improve existing services rather than focus primarily on new feature development.
