Senior Backend Cloud Engineer

About this role

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Backend Cloud Engineer based in the United States.

Join an innovative cybersecurity team dedicated to developing advanced solutions that protect organizations against ransomware and emerging digital threats. As a Senior Backend Cloud Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and evolving scalable cloud-based data platforms and API services. You will work primarily with Scala and Rust, contributing to modern backend architecture and supporting the transition of critical services toward Rust. Your work will help power security data ingestion, threat detection, malware analysis, and machine learning capabilities. Collaborating with product and platform engineering teams, you will influence technical decisions and drive engineering excellence. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on cybersecurity within a globally distributed, remote-first engineering environment.

### Accountabilities

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of features across backend data platforms and public API services, including security data ingestion, transformation, and enrichment.
• Drive system architecture, technical design, and data flow decisions in collaboration with product and platform engineering teams.
• Build, deploy, maintain, and take ownership of production-grade Scala backend services, ensuring reliability, security, scalability, and performance.
• Contribute to the strategic migration of selected APIs and backend services from Scala to Rust, ensuring a smooth transition and architectural consistency.
• Establish and maintain high standards for code quality, technical documentation, system maintainability, and operational excellence.
• Lead technical design discussions and code reviews while supporting engineering best practices across the team.
• Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot productio...