Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and support production backend services, including incident triage, troubleshooting, and recovery.
- Perform service upgrades, security patches, dependency updates, and cloud infrastructure migrations.
- Monitor and optimize service reliability using alerts, logs, and dashboards.
- Reduce alert noise, resolve technical debt, and safely decommission unused services.
- Maintain runbooks, technical documentation, and service ownership records.
Must-Have Skills
- Strong hands-on Java backend development experience; Python is a plus.
- Experience operating and maintaining distributed, high-volume production systems.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience with PagerDuty, Grafana, PromethePromQL, or similar monitoring tools.
- Strong incident management, troubleshooting, and production support skills.
- Excellent communication, prioritization, and cross-team collaboration skills.
Nice to Have
- Experience supporting large-scale systems serving millions of users.
- Experience with AI coding tools, service migrations, and technical debt reduction.
Ideal Candidate
A senior backend engineer with strong Java skills and production operations experience who can independently troubleshoot, maintain, and improve existing services rather than focus primarily on new feature development.
Rate:
Not specified
Location:
Remote
IR35 Status:
Not specified
Remote Status:
Remote
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior