Why we're looking for you: 😎
We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to be the first infrastructure-focused engineer at Port. This is a foundational role, where you’ll build the common infrastructure for all our services and set the technical standards that will drive our engineering teams forward.
As the first infra-focused engineer, you will:
- Design and implement scalable, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure components.
- Influence development standards, architecture, and best practices across all of R&D.
- Work on mission-critical systems that impact the entire company.
- Enable product teams to move faster and scale efficiently by providing the right infrastructure, tools, and abstractions.
- Take ownership of the infrastructure layer for LLM-based capabilities, ensuring seamless integration, reliability, and scalability of AI model interactions.
If you’re passionate about building for scale, shaping engineering culture, and having a broad impact across an organization, we’d love to hear from you.
What you'll do: 💼
- Design and build infrastructure components that power all of Port’s services, including authentication, authorization, service orchestration, logging and metrics reporting, and more.
- Define best practices for backend development, including coding standards, API design, observability, and performance optimization.
- Lead cross-team initiatives to improve reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Build and maintain the infrastructure layer that wraps and optimizes calls to AI/LLM models, ensuring efficient usage, cost management, and performance monitoring.
- Collaborate with fellow engineers to ensure seamless integrations between infrastructure and product services.
- Mentor engineers on best practices, system design, and performance optimizations.
Who You'll work with: 👯♀️
- You'll work closely with engineering teams to design and implement infrastructure that enables scalable development.
- You'll collaborate with DevOps engineers to optimize cloud costs, observability, and operational excellence.
- You'll influence technical direction across R&D by setting high engineering standards and best practices.
- You'll engage with product teams to ensure infrastructure solutions align with business needs and enable rapid feature development.
- You'll work with teams integrating AI/LLM-based capabilities to ensure robust infrastructure support for AI-driven features.
The skillset you’ll bring: 🧮
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience in designing and developing complex systems, highlighting your ability to tackle challenging technical problems, up from design phase, down to implementation, monitoring and testing and deployment
- Experience in dealing with scale and performance related challenges
- Experience with AI and LLM-based architectures, including optimizing model interactions, latency, and cost efficiency
- A collaborative team player skilled in driving initiatives to successful achievements, with a can-do approach
- Strong ability to lead initiatives, drive decisions, and mentor engineers.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Hebrew
Advantages:
- Experience in NodeJs + Typescript
- Experience with AWS cloud platform
- Experience in Python
- Experience in Golang
- Experience in DevOps related tools
- Experience in PostgreSQL, Kafka, DocumentDB, OpenSearch, Redis
The skillset you’ll bring: 🧮
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience in designing and developing complex systems, highlighting your ability to tackle challenging technical problems, up from design phase, down to implementation, monitoring and testing and deployment
- Experience in dealing with scale and performance related challenges
- A collaborative team player skilled in driving initiatives to successful achievements, with a can-do approach
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Hebrew
Advantages:
- Experience in Python
- Experience in Golang
- Experience with developing open source projects
- Experience with AWS cloud platform
- Experience in NodeJs + Typescript
- Experience in DevOps related tools
- Experience in PostgreSQL, Kafka, DocumentDB, OpenSearch, Redis
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