Backend Engineer

Description

Firefly’s Cloud Infrastructure Automation Platform enables organizations to automate, manage, and govern their entire cloud footprint with IaC. Agile and efficient cloud practitioners use Firefly for its AI-assisted remediations, streamlined IaC orchestration, and a unified system of record for Cloud Asset Management. With Firefly, Platform and DevOps teams can finally uncomplicate their cloud, while accelerating cloud innovation and maintaining security and performance at scale.

At Firefly, we are looking for a talented engineer to join our R&D group.

As a part of the team, you will participate in designing and building our next-generation cloud-based solutions. You will face challenges of performance, scalability, and availability in multi-cloud environments with the newest services and tools.

This genuinely unique R&D position puts you in charge of everything in the system and the development cycle. If you embrace dynamic environments, modern programming and have a solid understanding and deep knowledge of technologies and infrastructure - your place is with us.

Responsibilities

• Work in a scrum environment.
• Work at an extremely agile team in dynamic environments.
• Participate in our service development and cloud-based environments within R&D.
• Take part in infrastructure and system design.
• Leverage the latest technologies to manage our high-performance, scalable infrastructure on AWS and Google Cloud, using modern tools like the Go, Kubernetes, and Elasticsearch.
• Ensure proper security, monitoring, alerting and reporting for our backend services.
• Work closely with our product team.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of production experience with at least 2 different server-side programming languages (Go is a big advantage) - a must.
• Significant experience creating and utilizing RESTful API and scalable performance systems - a must.
• Experience working in a SaaS company.
• Experience in infrastructure tools: K8s, Elasticsearch, Logstash - an advantage.
• Experience with DevOps practices and technologies such as Terraform and Helm charts - an advantage.
• Experience working with relational (PostgreSQL) and non-relational (Mongo) databases - an advantage.
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture and modern system design principles (preferred AWS or GCP) - an advantage.
• Ability to take responsibility and work independently with a "can do" attitude and strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Firefly is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Firefly is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.