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HedraHedraSan Francisco, CA

Senior / Staff Backend Engineer

Design, build, and deploy scalable Python backend services and APIs on AWS to power creative tools, integrating with foundation models, Postgres, Redis, S3, and DynamoDB. Requires 5+ years building backend services with Python, Kubernetes/EKS, and relational databases.

175k – 275k
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Required Experience

  • Experience developing scalable services using Python, using frameworks such as FastAPI and Pydantic
  • Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS
  • Experience working with relational databases
  • At least 5 years of professional experience building backend services

Nice to Have

  • Experience building high availability services using CI/CD, full ranges of test validation approaches, monitoring and alerting
  • Familiarity with authentication / authorization, utilizing standards such as oauth2, OIDC, and JWT
  • Experience writing unit and integration tests and working with CI/CD and dev-containers
  • Familiarity with AWS IAM, ALB/NLB, route53, S3, Cloudflare
  • Experience developing/scaling pipelines, event streaming/processing in AWS, using tools such as SQS or Kafka
  • Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs for distributed systems
  • Experience with k8s, docker, especially in the context of deploying machine learning models on nvidia hardware

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity
  • 401k
  • Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental)
  • Lunch and snacks at the office

Skills

PythonFastAPIPydanticKubernetesEKSPostgresRedisAWSS3DynamoDBREST APIsKafkaSQSDockerCI/CD
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