About this role
Role Overview We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with a strong operations focus to build and operate the backend of our distributed radar platform. You will work across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, databases, messaging systems, and observability, with a strong emphasis on reliability and sound engineering practices. Key Responsibilities - Design and build backend services for ingesting, processing, and distributing data from distributed sensor nodes - Build and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows - Establish and operate development, staging, and production environments - Design systems that degrade gracefully and recover from partial failures - Operate and improve databases, messaging systems, and other stateful infrastructure - Build metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting for the platform - Automate infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and cloud-native tooling - Define backend architecture and drive engineering practices, mentoring engineers as the team grows Required Qualifications - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience - 7+ years of professional experience building and operating backend or distributed systems - Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, Linux, and production failure modes - Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Go, Rust, C++, or Python - Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, Docker, Kubernetes, or comparable container orchestration platforms - Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and production deployment workflows - Operational experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, including performance tuning, migrations, backups, and recovery - Experience with real-time or high-throughput data processing using messaging or streaming systems such as Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, or similar Nice to Have - Experience operating production systems across multiple cloud providers, on-premises, and edge environments - Experience with distributed edge or sensor systems - Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry - Experience designing or operating authentication and authorization systems - Experience with geospatial or time-series data - Knowledge of database replication, high availability, and disaster recovery - German language skills are beneficial but not required What We Offer - Competitive compensation package including VSOP participation - High autonomy and influence on architecture, infrastructure, and tooling - Direct collaboration with radar, signal processing, and product teams - Short decision paths - Flexible hybrid working model - Office location in Dresden, Germany Ergänzende Informationen: Anforderungen an den Bewerber: Grundkenntnisse: Systemintegration, Programmiersprache Go, Programmiersprache C++, Programmiersprache Rust, Programmiersprache Python Erweiterte Kenntnisse: Datenbank PostgreSQL Zwingend erforderlich: Betriebssystem Linux