Senior Backend Engineer - Infra

The role

This person will design and build core platform components including Kubernetes operators, control/data plane services, custom tooling, and infrastructure-as-code systems. They will work on scaling infrastructure in a cloud-native, multi-tenant environment.

What you will do

• Architect and develop Kubernetes operators and controllers to automate and manage platform workloads.
• Design and implement control plane and data plane services for orchestration, routing, monitoring, and self-healing.
• Build internal developer tooling and platform APIs.
• Design and maintain IaC frameworks to provision and manage cloud infrastructure.
• Establish and improve observability, reliability, and resilience of critical infrastructure components.
• Work closely with SREs, platform engineers, and application teams.
• Contribute to infrastructure architecture and technical direction.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building backend or infrastructure systems, ideally in cloud-native environments.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes internals, operators/controllers, CRDs, and the Kubernetes API.
• Strong software engineering skills in languages such as Go, Rust, or Python.
• Hands-on experience designing distributed systems and working with control plane/data plane architectures.
• Proficiency with IaC tools and practices (Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, etc.).
• Solid understanding of containerization, orchestration, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Familiarity with observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and operational best practices for production systems.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and performance optimization skills.

Nice to have

• Go (preferred)
• Experience building platform services in a multi-tenant SaaS environment.
• Familiarity with service meshes, workload identity, and cloud-native security patterns.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects.

About the company

Lyric is an enterprise AI platform built specifically for supply chains. It offers out-of-the-box AI solutions and a platform-first approach for optimizing networks, inventory, and more.