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Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Infra/Platform, VenturaOS
$137K–$252K
Bellevue · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 13, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful time on cloud platforms or distributed systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Own and operate the cloud, build, security, GPU/ML-serving, and telemetry infrastructure that powers Ventura OS and its partner teams.
What you'll do
- Build, automate, monitor, and optimize cloud infrastructure and services, including compute, networking, storage, databases, and identity.
- Own build and release systems, developer tooling, GPU/model-serving platforms, and end-to-end telemetry; lead infrastructure migrations and operational excellence.
- Partner with application teams to design and scale services, establish standards, and ensure reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful time on cloud platforms or distributed systems.
- Commercial development experience in a modern backend language (Node.js/TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Go, or C#).
- Extensive production experience designing and operating cloud services and/or infrastructure at meaningful scale.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code and automation background; production observability and SLO/on-call experience; understanding of relational and NoSQL data stores.
Nice to have
- Deep understanding of cloud services and Kubernetes on AWS, GCP, or Azure at scale.
- Exposure to identity/security systems, GPU infrastructure or ML-serving platforms, or Smart TV/OTT/CTV services.
Pay
$137,300 — $251,800 USD (base salary)
Tools
Kubernetes, Node.js/TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Go, C#, Prometheus, Postgres
AI focus
Lead GPU infrastructure and model-serving platforms for applied science workloads and AI-assisted tools, including code review and incident-response automation.
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