Senior Middleware Engineer
Posted Today by VDart, Inc.
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Remote
Summary: The Senior Middleware Engineer role involves extensive experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and middleware platforms in large-scale enterprise environments. The position requires hands-on expertise in backend engineering and cloud-native infrastructure, with a focus on delivering complex systems under real production loads. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong technical ownership and communication skills, particularly in high-stakes environments. This is a contract position based remotely in Draper, UT.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
- Implement and debug Kubernetes deployments and cloud networking systems.
- Own end-to-end technical delivery of middleware platforms, including architecture and post-deployment stabilization.
- Handle incident response, performance bottlenecks, and live customer-impacting issues.
- Make independent architectural and operational decisions in high-stakes environments.
- Communicate complex architectural decisions and system updates to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Key Skills:
- 10+ years of experience in backend engineering and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, OpenAI, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Python, Pandas, and Jupyter notebooks.
- Experience designing and deploying AI/LLM-powered production systems.
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: undetermined
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Role: Senior Middleware Engineer
Location: Draper, UT (Remote)
Type: Contract
Required Experience: TypeScript, Node.js, OpenAI, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, MCP, Python, Pandas, Jupyter notebooks
What We’re Looking For
- 10+ years of extensive professional experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), Kubernetes deployments, and cloud networking, with the expectation of personally implementing and debugging these systems rather than delegating them
- Proven track record of owning end-to-end technical delivery of complex middleware platforms in large-scale enterprise environments, including architecture, implementation, rollout, and post-deployment stabilization under real production load
- Deep hands-on expertise across backend engineering and cloud-native infrastructure, including designing, deploying, and operating production systems at scale, handling failure modes, incident response, performance bottlenecks, and live customer-impacting issues
- Demonstrated ability to act as the primary technical owner in ambiguous, high-stakes environments, making architectural and operational decisions independently and being accountable for outcomes in live enterprise systems especially when deploying live to enterprise systems
- A builder’s mindset with bias for action, creativity under pressure, and an obsession with making things work in the real world
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
- Strong plus: Hands-on experience designing and deploying AI/LLM-powered production systems, including prompt orchestration, agent workflows, tool calling, vector databases, latency/cost optimization, and operational monitoring
- High-Stakes Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the capacity to clearly articulate complex architectural decisions, system roadmaps, and production incident status updates to both highly technical teams and non-technical client executives.