Triple WhaleRemote
Senior Cloud/Backend Engineer
United States of America
Full-time
2 weeks ago
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
KubernetesCloud platformsDatabase managementNode.jsPythonCI/CDHands-on builder mentalitycommunicationOwnership mindsetAWSAzureGCPGrafanaDatadogGitCommunication
About this role
Triple Whale is the complete intelligence platform for ecommerce, helping brands stop guessing and start knowing what’s actually driving growth. We’re looking for a Senior Cloud Backend Engineer to join our Infrastructure Team, where you will be responsible for deploying and supporting service infrastructure, optimizing databases, and providing observability across systems.
Responsibilities:
- Deploy and support our service infrastructure in Kubernetes
- Identify the right tools and technologies for major initiatives and then build them
- Help other teams and developers design robust and scalable systems
- Scale and optimize multiple databases
- Build internal tooling that accelerates developer velocity
- Provide observability, monitoring, and visibility across our systems
- On-Call Responsibilities (2–3 rotations per month)- You will participate in a shared on-call rotation, typically 2–3 times per month, covering the period from Friday at 7:00 AM ET through Saturday at 5:00 PM ET
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience as an independent backend or infrastructure engineer
- Ability to design and build scalable, reliable systems
- Strong communication skills
- Hands-on builder mentality — this is a coding role
- Strong understanding of system architecture and cross-service dependencies
- Previous real-world experience in production on-call environments
- Ability to quickly assess incidents, identify scope/root cause, and understand platform impact
- Ability to classify severity and prioritize response appropriately
- Capability to deploy safe production hotfixes when needed
- Solid judgment under pressure - especially when operating independently
- Ownership mindset: from detection to mitigation to resolution
- Experience with Relational and non-relational databases
- Experience with Major Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), GCP is an advantage
- Experience with Streaming systems
- Experience with Scaling large systems
- Experience with Message queues
- Experience with Monitoring systems like DataDog, Grafana, Groundcover
- Experience with CI/CD, Git
- Bonus Skills: Kubernetes and Knative (production experience) & ClickHouse