About the Role

We need a senior backend engineer who can own systems end-to-end — from designing Temporal workflow architectures that process millions of customer profiles, to provisioning the AWS infrastructure underneath them, to ensuring the GitOps deployment pipeline delivers it all reliably.

You'll be the person who understands how a schema change in PostgreSQL ripples through FastAPI services, affects Kubernetes manifests, and requires coordinated Terraform updates. You'll make those cross-cutting decisions with confidence because you've been burned by the alternative.

What You'll Own

· Data Platform Architecture — Design and evolve Temporal workflow patterns for ingestion, audience segmentation, profile resolution, and sequencing. Make decisions about retry strategies, idempotency, and failure isolation across 15+ workflow types

· Infrastructure Design — Architect and maintain multi-account AWS infrastructure (dev/global/prod) via Terraform Cloud — EKS clusters, RDS instances, IRSA policies, networking, and secrets management. You understand that this layer has the highest blast radius in the system and you treat it accordingly

· Deployment Pipeline Ownership — Own the GitOps flow: GitHub Actions → ECR → ArgoCD → EKS. Design sync-wave orchestration (DB → migrate → app → schedules) and ensure zero-downtime deployment guarantees hold under real conditions

· Cross-Service Contracts — Define and enforce API boundaries between services. Our data platform handles 22+ API endpoints consumed by the core API, plus reverse callbacks — you'll keep those contracts stable as both sides evolve

· Platform Reliability — Drive observability, incident response, and capacity planning. When something breaks at 2am, the deployment chain and infrastructure decisions you made determine whether it's a 5-minute fix or a 5-hour outage

· Technical Leadership — Review PRs with an adversarial eye for cross-repo impact. Mentor mid-level engineers. Make build-vs-buy decisions. Push back on complexity that doesn't earn its keep

What We Expect

Required

· 5–10 years backend engineering, with at least 2 years owning production infrastructure

· Deep Python expertise — you've designed service architectures, not just written endpoints

· PostgreSQL at depth — partitioning strategies, migration safety, connection pooling, query plans, not just ORMs

· Production Kubernetes experience — you've debugged pod scheduling, resource limits, networking issues, and lived to tell the story

· Terraform in anger — you've written modules, managed state, handled drift, and know when to import vs recreate

· AWS fluency — EKS, RDS, S3, IAM/IRSA, ALB, Route53, Secrets Manager as tools you reach for without documentation

· Strong opinions on API contract design, versioning, and backward compatibility — informed by experience breaking things

· You've operated multi-service systems where a change in one repo requires coordinated changes across others

Expected

· Temporal or comparable workflow orchestration at scale (Cadence, Step Functions) — you understand deterministic execution constraints, activity retry semantics, and workflow versioning

· ArgoCD / GitOps patterns — you've designed deployment pipelines, not just consumed them

· Kustomize overlays for multi-environment configuration management

· Multi-account AWS architecture — organizational SCPs, cross-account IAM, centralized ECR/OIDC

· FastAPI or similar async Python frameworks with SQLAlchemy async and Alembic

· CI/CD pipeline design with GitHub Actions — build, test, push, deploy as a coherent system

Differentiators

· Meltano / Singer ecosystem experience (ELT pipeline orchestration)

· External Secrets Operator or similar Kubernetes-native secrets management

· Terraform Cloud workspace design and workspace-to-environment mapping

· Multi-tenant SaaS — tenant isolation at the data layer, not just the application layer

· You've built or significantly evolved a developer platform or internal tooling

Candidates must be currently based in the Americas (North America, South America, Central America, or the Caribbean).