Backend Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Department: Engineering & Product

Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan

Employment Type: FullTime

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Build the shared infrastructure that helps Higgsfield’s product teams ship quickly and run reliable services. You’ll own problems from finding the bottleneck to shipping a solution and supporting it in production.

What you’ll do

• Build shared services for queues, job scheduling, caching, configuration, and service communication.

• Improve concurrency limits, resource allocation, and recovery for long-running media workloads.

• Make database access, migrations, and connection management safer and faster.

• Simplify service setup, testing, deployment, and production debugging.

• Improve observability, investigate incidents, and reduce infrastructure cost per completed job.

• Work directly with product engineers, ship focused improvements, and measure the results. Our release cycle is days, not quarters.

Required

• Experience running production systems on Kubernetes (K8s) and AWS, including deployments, scaling, networking, and troubleshooting.

• Strong software engineering skills: you build shared services, tools, and automation that other engineers use.

• Experience with databases, queues, and distributed systems, including performance debugging, safe rollouts, and recovery.

• A difficult production problem you owned from an unclear starting point to a working solution.

• Ability to set priorities, make practical tradeoffs, remove blockers, and ask for help when needed.

• Clear communication, openness to feedback, and knowledge sharing so others can operate and extend your work.

Nice to have

• Cloudflare.

• Infrastructure as code.

• PostgreSQL, Redis, or event-streaming systems.

• High-throughput media pipelines or AI workload orchestration.

Interview process

1. Recruiter screen: expectations, logistics, and fit.

2. Technical interview: a difficult system you shipped, your decisions, and the results.

3. Additional technical interview, if needed.

4. Product fit interview: investigate a team’s bottleneck and plan a practical improvement, adoption, and safe rollout.

5. Offer.

What we offer

Competitive base pay in USD, equity, relocation support, and ownership of infrastructure used across our engineering teams.