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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer (Platform) - **Company:** Soda Data - **Location:** Bochum, Germany (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** €85,000.0 - €120,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), DevOps, Github, Identity and Access Management, Java Web Services, Python (Programming Language), MySQL, Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Prometheus, DataOps, Service Design, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Data Logging, Pulumi, Large Language Models, Grafana, Concurrency, Backend, Build Management, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Production Code, Data Management, Vertica, Terraform - **Published:** August 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5828162532 ## About the Role You Should Have * 5+ years building backend software at a product company: you've designed, built, and owned real production services, not just operated them. * Strong Java: APIs, async processing, concurrency, performance tuning. * Solid SQL in a backend context: schema design, query optimization, migrations in production. We run MySQL and ClickHouse. * Architectural judgment: you understand how API and service design choices shape data flow, query patterns, latency, and failure modes at runtime. * You run what you build: your services have lived on Kubernetes and AWS (EKS, IAM, networking, RDS, S3) in production, and you're happy owning that layer for the team. * CI/CD, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD/Flux, Terraform or Pulumi, plus solid scripting. * Observability as a habit: metrics, logging, tracing (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), and you actually write tests. * Agentic engineering: you ship production code with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) in the loop, and you know how to direct them well while keeping the quality bar high. * Independence: you don't need hand-holding in a distributed, async team across 12+ countries. * Fluent English. Good to Have * Multi-tenant SaaS at scale; high-growth startup experience. * Python: our data engineering stack runs on it. * Regulated-environment experience (ISO27001, SOC2). * Experience building agentic workflows into the product: LLM-powered features, tool-using agents, or AI-driven automation shipped to real users. * Data quality, data management, data observability, or ML monitoring industry experience. ## Description You'll join our Platform team and own the full path from backend service to production: the Java services that power Soda Cloud and the AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure they run on. To be clear about the shape of this role: you're a backend engineer first. Most of your time goes into designing and building services. Infrastructure is the part of your craft that lets you own them all the way to production, not a separate job. This is not a DevOps or SRE position. You ship features, and you make sure the platform underneath them scales to billions of datasets. We're product engineers, not ticket-takers: you'll talk to users, shape solutions with your PM, and ship end-to-end. No hand-offs, no waiting. We also build agentically: AI coding agents are part of how the whole team ships, and the platform you own is a big part of what makes them effective. What You'll Do * Design and build robust backend services and APIs in Java for a multi-tenant SaaS platform. This is where most of your time goes. * Ship product features end-to-end and work directly with product and customers on what to build. Your opinion matters here. * Improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of the services you own, and carry them all the way to production on our AWS/Kubernetes platform. * Keep the team shipping fast: CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, observability. 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