we are looking for a
hands-on Cloud/Platform Engineer (6-9 years experience) who has built and scaled cloud-native systems to 100K+ users. This role requires
strong backend and distributed systems expertise, along with a product mindset - someone who thinks about performance, reliability, cost, and user impact, not just infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and scale cloud-native systems on AWS (preferred) / GCP / Azure
- Build high-throughput backend services (Node/Python)
- Design distributed systems (event-driven architectures, queues, caching, async workers)
- Implement autoscaling, high availability, DR, and performance optimization
- Manage infrastructure using Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Set up observability (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK) and lead incident response
- Optimize cloud costs using FinOps principles
- Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to design scalable solutions
Requirements
- 6-9 years in backend/cloud engineering
- Experience scaling systems to 100K+ users or high RPS environments
- Strong AWS knowledge (EKS/ECS, Lambda, RDS/DynamoDB, SQS/Kafka, Redis, CDN)
- Solid understanding of distributed systems (concurrency, idempotency, eventual consistency, retries)
- Hands-on with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization
- Strong ownership and ability to communicate technical trade-offs
Typically Candidates Has
- Build backend services
- Design scalable architecture
- Work with distributed system
- Scale systems to 100K-1M+users
- Candidate should have strong exp in aws/azure/gcp
- Are product minded
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