# Backend / Infrastructure Engineer

Uptown Moose • Chicago (Remote from North Macedonia) Backend & Infrastructure Engineer (Go / Linux / Private Cloud) ~120,000 MKD Net / Month (2,200,000 MKD Gross / Year) Full-time • На неопределено време Core Hours: 06:30–15:30 UTC About Us Uptown Moose is a small, founder-run VoIP operator and telecom compliance software and consulting firm, based in Chicago. We have a purpose built infrastructure: a private cloud (XCP+Nomad), a fleet of Go microservices, with fully programmable telephony (Freeswitch+Go) on top. We’re currently hiring our first engineer. Our team is small and profitable. We automate and operationalize relentlessly, which is why there aren't a lot of meetings and there is no bureaucracy. The Role You will be responsible for the day-to-day engineering and operations of a production telecom platform, working directly with the founder. This is as much a backend-and-infrastructure role, as an application-developer role. What the work looks like: Build and maintain Go microservices backed by PostgreSQL: new features, bug fixes, performance work, schema changes Run the private cloud: Xen hypervisors, Nomad scheduling, networking, storage, backups, monitori

- **Id**: 4162185
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/uptown-moose-backend-infrastructure-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: North Macedonia
- **Countries**: MK
- **Hiring countries**: MK
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T08:19:02Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T08:19:02Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5350
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4538473
- **Name**: Uptown Moose
- **Domain**: uptownmoose.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/uptown-moose>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Remote working hours

- **Label**: UTC
- **Utc offset min**: 0
- **Utc offset max**: 0

## Salary

- **Min**: 2200000
- **Max**: 2200000
- **Currency**: MKD
- **Period**: month
- **Gross**: no
- **Usd annual**: 478416

## Technologies

- **Elixir** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Nomad** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Xen** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **BGP** — Optional: yes
- **Claude** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **KVM** — Optional: yes
- **Loki** — Optional: yes
- **Prometheus** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

- **North Macedonia** — Iso: MK; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T12:34:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T14:51:49Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 478416
- **Is top pay**: yes

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