Senior Backend Engineer

Firefly is a trailblazing force in the tech industry, propelling the future of Cloud Asset Management. Our solution empowers DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering 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 Senior Backend Engineer to join our R&D team.

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

This genuinely unique R&D position puts you in charge of everything in the system and the development cycle.

As a Backend Engineer, you will

• Work in a scrum environment
• Work at an extremely agile team in dynamic environments
• Participate in our service development and cloud-based environments within R&D
• Take part in infrastructure and system design
• Use the latest technology and manage our high-performance, high-scale infrastructure on top of AWS and Google Cloud resources using multiple 3rd party modern development tools, such as Golang stack, K8s and Elasticsearch 
• Ensure proper security, monitoring, alerting and reporting for our backend services
• Work closely with our product team

You should join us if you

• Have at least 8 years of mastery of at least 2 different server-side programming languages (GoLang is an advantage) - a must
• Have significant experience creating and utilizing RESTful API and scalable performance systems - a must
• Have experience working in a SaaS company
• Have experience in infrastructure tools: K8s, Elasticsearch, Logstash - an advantage
• Have experience with DevOps practices and technologies such as Terraform and Helm Chart - an advantage
• Have experience working with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, and Elastic - an advantage
• Have a deep understanding of cloud architecture and modern system design principles (preferred AWS or GCP) - an advantage
• Have 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.