Optimal DynamicsRemote
Staff Software Engineer, Backend
United States
Full-time
2 weeks ago
$190,000 - $220,000 USD
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
PythonKafkaAWSTerraformKubernetesCloudFormationIstioService MeshCI/CDMentoring
About this role
Optimal Dynamics is a high-growth company focused on redefining logistics decisions through innovative technology. The Staff Software Engineer, Backend will lead the architecture and strategy of the platform infrastructure, ensuring reliability, performance, and security while mentoring engineers and collaborating across teams.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and scale core infrastructure to ensure reliability, performance, and security
- Build and improve tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and workflows, optimizing developer productivity and minimizing friction
- Champion security-by-design principles, implementing controls that safeguard systems and data without slowing innovation
- Serve as a technical leader across teams, coaching engineers, and driving alignment on platform strategy
- Partner with product and engineering leaders, balancing speed, cost, and resilience in every decision
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent technical experience
- Staff-level expertise in Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
- Proven track record of scaling cloud-native systems
- Strong Python 3 expertise
- Strong AWS expertise
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar)
- Hands-on experience with IaC tools (i.e. Terraform, CloudFormation), observability, monitoring, & incident response
- Proven track record of improving DevEx by leveling up tooling, pipelines, & automation
- Experience improving monorepo developer workflows (Bazel, Buck, Pants)
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.) and how to operationalize them
- Experience leading security initiatives(i.e. hardening environments; building secure-by-default workflows)
- A history of mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction across teams
- Experience with service mesh/container orchestration (Kubernetes, Istio, etc.)
- Background in transportation systems (TMS, ELD) or other complex, mission-critical domains
- Experience implementing cost monitoring, forecasting, and optimization strategies to ensure infrastructure efficiency and cloud spend accountability