Senior Backend Software Engineer, Cloud & Infrastructure

The role

You will design and scale distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure to manage wireless optical terminals. You will build telemetry pipelines, automate cloud infrastructure, and develop observability tools.

What you will do

• Design and implement the cloud-native backend for managing global optical terminals.
• Build data ingestion and processing systems for real-time performance metrics.
• Collaborate with embedded engineers to define hardware to cloud communication.
• Lead the Infrastructure as Code strategy for global deployments.
• Develop tools and dashboards for the Network Operations Center to troubleshoot optical links.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of experience building and deploying scalable services on GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Strong proficiency in Golang, Typescript, and/or Python.
• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and distributed systems architecture.
• Proven track record of designing and maintaining clean, scalable APIs (gRPC, REST).
• Experience with relational databases, NoSQL, timeseries databases (e.g., Prometheus), and message brokers (e.g., Pub/Sub, Kafka).
• Experience with security best practices, least-privilege model, defining IAM roles/policies, and use of public key cryptography.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Terraform, Pulumi, or Ansible.
• Interest in (or experience with) Angular/React/TypeScript for internal monitoring tools.
• Understanding of L2/L3 networking, VPNs, and secure tunneling.
• Experience working in fast-paced environments where you might need to wear multiple hats.
• Experience or interest in how cloud services interact with physical IOT or networking hardware.

Benefits

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About the company

Taara is on a mission to connect billions of people lacking abundant and affordable internet by pioneering the way they use light to deliver connectivity. It was born at X, Google's Moonshot Factory.