# Senior Backend Engineer

Description Prisma Photonics, a fast-growing startup, transforms infrastructure monitoring with optical fibers. We eliminate the need for extra sensors by offering sensor-free solutions to monitor electrical power grids and oil & gas pipelines across thousands of kilometers. Our fiber-sensing technology, integrated with AI and machine learning, enables our customers to achieve environmental and renewable energy targets, ensuring smooth utility operations on their path to net-zero emissions. We are looking for the best minds and spirits to join us in our journey. We know our product is only as great as the individuals building the hardware and software and harnessing data for good causes. Being a great team member means being eager to learn and grow, able to challenge while accepting being challenged, and working for the team and the product with enthusiasm and passion. We are now hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and own significant parts of our system - from the edge platform that runs our sensing and processing workloads in the field, through to the cloud services and data pipelines that turn that output into customer-facing insight. This is a hands-on role with

- **Id**: 3760819
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/prisma-senior-backend-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T11:09:05Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T12:09:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3254
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Telecommunications, Optical Communications

## Company

- **Id**: 3781651
- **Name**: Prisma
- **Domain**: prismaphotonics.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/prisma-6>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Comeet

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no
- **Ansible** — Optional: yes
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **CUDA** — Optional: yes
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: yes
- **GitOps** — Optional: yes
- **Helm** — Optional: yes
- **HPC** — Optional: yes
- **Jenkins** — Optional: yes
- **K3s** — Optional: yes
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2); Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T18:30:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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