Senior Backend and DevOps Engineer

The Senior Backend and DevOps Engineer will be responsible for the following one of these tasks:
Responsibilities:
-Setup SLOs, monitoring practices. Enhance stability of the system by means of database optimization, system optimization in terms of performance, scalability and fault tolerance.
-Lead backend stability and performance efforts, particularly in high-transaction environments.
-Monitor system health to proactively identify and resolve issues, especially during peak usage periods.
-Provide on-call support, mitigating production issues like crashes, errors, and outages in real time.
-Analyze logs, error reports, and monitoring data to detect and address potential system problems before they escalate.
-Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth, automated CI/CD pipelines and effective incident management.
-Implement system optimizations to improve uptime, performance, and scalability.
-Establish and maintain robust monitoring and alerting systems for rapid issue detection and response.
-Work closely with development, infrastructure, and operations teams to resolve technical issues affecting backend performance.
-Document system changes, incident reports, and troubleshooting guidelines to enhance operational workflows and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications and Skills:
-5+ years of experience in backend engineering or DevOps roles, preferably in high-transaction, production-grade environments.
-Expertise in backend development with Supabase, Firebase or similar platforms.
-Strong proficiency with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, including monitoring, scaling, and performance optimization. Should be experienced with queue systems like GCP Pub/Sub and GCP Cloud Task
-Optimize database queries, ensuring data consistency and low-latency access, working with databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.
-Hands-on experience with DevOps tools, particularly CircleCI for CI/CD pipelines and GitHub for version control.
-Strong TypeScript. Should also know how to optimize javascript code. Async operations, error handling, etc.
-Frontend (Optional): React TypeScript. For optimization you should know memoization concepts, state management, etc.
-Proven experience in system monitoring, incident management, and large-scale system optimization.
-Excellent troubleshooting skills and the ability to perform root cause analysis in complex technical environments.
-Maintain observability through monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

Nice-to-Have:
Experience with real-time data systems and event-driven architectures.
Knowledge of security best practices and vulnerability management.