Senior Software Engineer; Cloud

Overview

Are you a cloud-focused backend engineer who wants to build and secure modern cloud-native platforms at scale?

My client is an emerging technology company operating in the cloud security space, building runtime-driven platforms that help organisations protect and understand their cloud infrastructure in real time. They are now looking to bring on a Senior Cloud / Backend Engineer to play a key role in designing, building and scaling their cloud-native backend systems.

This role has a strong emphasis on cloud development
, distributed systems and production-grade infrastructure running across AWS, GCP and Azure
.

• Design, develop and maintain cloud-native backend services running in production environments

• Build and evolve microservices architectures deployed on Kubernetes and containerised platforms

• Contribute to cloud architecture and technology decisions across AWS, GCP and Azure

• Own services end-to-end, including deployment, monitoring, performance tuning and reliability

• Improve scalability, stability and efficiency of distributed systems and data-intensive services

• Work with CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe and automated delivery

• Conduct code and design reviews, helping to set engineering best practices

• Collaborate with Dev Ops and platform teams on infrastructure and runtime concerns

• 7+ years' experience in backend or platform engineering

• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP and/or Azure)

• Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Java, Go, Python or C#

• Hands-on experience building cloud-native, distributed systems

• Strong knowledge of microservices architectures

• Experience with
  containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines in production environments

• Background in data-intensive systems and messaging technologies

• Experience working in cloud security, observability or platform-level products

• Familiarity with technologies such as Elastic Search, Redis, Neo4j, Timescale
  
  DB or RabbitMQ

• Exposure to multi-cloud environments and large-scale production systems

• Work on a cloud-first product operating at scale across multiple cloud providers

• High level of technical ownership and influence over architecture decisions

• Opportunity to make a real impact in a fast-growing, technically challenging domain

• Collaborate with senior engineers across backend, platform and Dev Ops disciplines

If you have any further questions on the role, please feel free to reach out to Brendan McCrory directly
.