Senior Backend Engineer - Infrastructure (ClickPipes)
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer - Infrastructure (ClickPipes) based in Canada.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced backend engineer to build and scale the infrastructure behind a high-performance real-time data platform operating at petabyte scale. You'll play a key role in designing reliable cloud-native systems, improving deployment automation, and ensuring platform resilience across distributed environments. Working with modern technologies and a highly collaborative engineering team, you'll tackle complex infrastructure challenges while influencing technical direction and architectural decisions. This role offers significant ownership, autonomy, and the opportunity to make a measurable impact on products that power mission-critical data workloads for organizations worldwide. If you enjoy solving large-scale distributed systems problems in a fast-paced environment, this position offers an exceptional opportunity to grow and innovate.
Accountabilities
- Design, build, and enhance the infrastructure powering a large-scale real-time data ingestion platform.
- Scale backend services to support increasing data volumes while maintaining high availability and performance.
- Develop and improve cloud infrastructure across multiple providers, including AWS and future multi-cloud environments.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment pipelines, and operational workflows using Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Contribute to architecture discussions and technical decisions that improve platform scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
- Monitor production systems, participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot complex incidents, and implement long-term reliability improvements.
- Collaborate closely with engineering teams to deliver infrastructure solutions aligned with customer needs and evolving business priorities.
- Continuously optimize systems based on operational metrics, production insights, and user feedback.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience as a Backend or Infrastructure Engineer.
- Strong expertise in Golang, Kubernetes, and Terraform (or equivalent Infrastructure as Code tools).
- Solid experience designing and operating cloud-native applications on at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, backend architecture, and platform reliability engineering.
- Excellent production debugging and root cause analysis skills in complex, high-scale environments.
- Experience building and maintaining automated deployment pipelines and infrastructure automation.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
- Customer-focused mindset with the ability to translate operational insights into technical improvements.
- Ability to work independently, take ownership of projects, and thrive in a fast-paced, high-autonomy environment.
- Passion for solving complex engineering challenges and delivering scalable, reliable infrastructure.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation based on experience, skills, and location.
- Stock options as part of the company's equity program.
- Remote-first work environment with flexible working arrangements across multiple countries.
- Employer-supported healthcare benefits.
- Flexible paid time off or generous vacation entitlement depending on location.
- $500 home office setup allowance for remote employees.
- Company-wide offsites and global team gatherings.
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems.
- Collaborative engineering culture with strong ownership and professional growth opportunities.
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