# Senior / Staff Backend Engineer

**Company:** [Hedra](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hedra)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $175k – $275k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, Kubernetes, EKS, Postgres, Redis, AWS, S3, DynamoDB, REST APIs, Kafka, SQS, Docker, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2026-05-21

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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