Senior Platform Backend Engineer (AWS)

TL;DR

Senior Platform Backend Engineer (AWS): Building and operating backend services, internal platforms, and shared infrastructure for energy storage data systems with an accent on cloud-native architecture, CI/CD design, and operational reliability. Focus on architecting scalable AWS-based systems, managing infrastructure as code, and ensuring high availability for data-intensive power market applications.

Location: Must be based in the United States (Remote or hybrid in San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, Seattle, New York, Palm Beach, or Birmingham).

Salary: From $150,000.

Company

hirify.global is a market-leading energy storage developer transforming North American electric grids through data-driven development and operations.

What you will do

• Design and operate backend services and shared infrastructure supporting data pipelines and analytics.
• Architect and maintain cloud-native systems on AWS with a focus on security, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform to ensure consistent and flexible deployments.
• Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, validation, and deployment of application and infrastructure code.
• Collaborate with data engineers to integrate relational databases, object storage, and event-driven data flows.
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead root cause analysis to improve system resilience.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in platform, backend, data engineering, CloudOps, or SRE roles.
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience building production-grade services.
• Significant hands-on experience with AWS (VPC, IAM, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Proven ability to operate containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States and capable of maintaining communication across distributed teams.

Nice to have

• Prior experience on data platform, analytics, or ML infrastructure teams.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, messaging systems, or streaming data patterns.
• Experience building or evolving internal developer platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package including annual bonus program.
• Unlimited vacation policy and flexible remote work arrangements.
• Comprehensive benefits program including work from home stipend and parental leave.
• Educational assistance for professional growth.
• Engaging culture focused on radical transparency, internal partnering, and an ideas meritocracy.