# Staff Backend Engineer

Staff Backend Engineer About the Role We are seeking a Senior Platform Software Engineer to join our platform team and help build the services that power the future of scientific research. You will develop and maintain critical APIs and services that enable scientists to orchestrate complex experiments remotely. This role offers the unique opportunity to solve challenging problems at the intersection of cloud computing, laboratory automation, and scientific instrumentation. You will join a small, high-impact team where ownership and leadership are essential. As a team member helping to build the Engineering team as well as the product, you will also be encouraged to contribute to the software engineering practices we maintain in our own work, and which we bring to ECL as a whole. We strive to be continually critical of our process, cutting cruft and homing in on performance multipliers (such as continuous integration and agile development practices). In this role you will Design and develop highly scalable backend services, ensuring performance and security Collaborate with designers, scientists and engineers to deliver products solving real challenges experienced in labs by our us

- **Id**: 3894512
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/emerald-cloud-lab-staff-backend-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T22:40:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T23:39:05Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3587
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Laboratory & Pharmaceutical Robotics, Scientific & Lab Software

## Company

- **Id**: 58547
- **Name**: Emerald Cloud Lab
- **Domain**: emeraldcloudlab.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/emerald-cloud-lab>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: BambooHR

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Wolfram** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub** — Optional: yes
- **Go** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes
- **Rust** — Optional: yes
- **Travis CI** — Optional: yes
- **Windows** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T22:40:13Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 3 · green card filings: 2; Filings 12m: 3

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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