Platform Backend Engineer

Firefly is a trailblazing force in the tech industry, propelling the future of Cloud Asset Management. Our product-led service empowers DevOps, SRE, and Cloud Platform teams to master their cloud landscape, detect drifts, invoke policy-as-code, and maintain a codified cloud across multi-cloud and Kubernetes clusters. We specialize in providing comprehensive asset inventory, insights, and Infrastructure-as-Code information. Firefly is a fast-growing startup recognized as an emerging innovator in the DevOps community.

At Firefly, we are looking for a talented Platform Backend Engineer to join our Core team in our R&D department.

As part of the Core team, you will participate in designing and building our next-generation cloud-based solutions. You will tackle challenges of performance, scalability, and availability in multi-cloud environments while leveraging the newest services and tools.

This genuinely unique R&D position puts you at the center of the system and the development cycle, working on core platform functionalities that are critical to our success.

If you thrive in dynamic environments, embrace modern programming practices, and possess a solid understanding and deep knowledge of technologies and infrastructure, your place is with us.

As a Platform Backend Engineer, working in the Core team, you will:

• Work in a scrum environment.
• Be part of an extremely agile team operating in dynamic environments.
• Participate in service development and cloud-based environments within R&D.
• Contribute to infrastructure and system design.
• Use the latest technologies and manage high-performance, high-scale infrastructure on top of AWS and Google Cloud resources using modern development tools such as Golang stack, Kubernetes, and Elasticsearch.
• Ensure proper security, monitoring, alerting, and reporting for backend services.
• Collaborate closely with our product team.

To thrive in this role, you should have:

• 4+ years of hands-on experience as a backend engineer  - a must.
• Deep hands-on experience in Golang - a must.
• Significant experience creating and utilizing RESTful APIs and scalable performance systems - a must.
• Proven experience as a DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineer - an advantage.
• Extensive knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes.
• Experience in GCP/Azure - an advantage.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus/Grafana.
• Experience working with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, and Elastic.
• Significant experience with IaC such as Terraform/Cloudformation/Pulumi/Helm.
• A deep understanding of cloud architecture and modern system design principles.
• Experience working in a SaaS company.
• The ability to take responsibility and work independently with a "can do" attitude and strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Firefly is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Firefly is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.