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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Back-End Engineer: Infrastructure - **Company:** Helm LLC - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $225,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, BigTable, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Databases, Continuous Integration, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Linux, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Github, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Performance Tuning, Redis, Datadog, Google Cloud, Firebase, Sentry, Gsuite, Terraform, GPT, Docker - **Published:** August 28, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/helm-health/am9icG9zdDqAhTcTRQePU7AHdbwWkRgx ## About the Role * 5+ years in backend engineering, with significant infrastructure or DevOps experience * Strong Terraform/Terraform Cloud experience * Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production * Google Cloud Platform experience * Hands-on experience operating and scaling databases (relational and NoSQL) * Experience with CI/CD systems, monitoring, and observability tooling * Backend engineering fundamentals - you've built and maintained production services, even if infrastructure is now your primary focus Preferred Qualifications * Go proficiency * Experience with disaster recovery planning and runbook creation * Healthcare infrastructure experience - HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 2, HITRUST * Incident management tooling (incident.io or similar) * Python proficiency * Start-up experience Characteristics * Reliable and detail-oriented - infrastructure mistakes are expensive, and you take that seriously. * Mission-driven - motivated by making healthcare simpler and more transparent * Willing to ask questions and admit what you don't know * Versatile - you're an infrastructure specialist who can context-switch into application-level work when needed ## Description We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Infrastructure team and report to our Principal DevOps Engineer. You'll focus on platform engineering and DevOps - CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, reliability, and operational tooling. You'll serve as the second engineer on the Infrastructure team, providing cross-coverage, including shared on-call rotation. We're looking for someone with strong backend engineering fundamentals and infrastructure expertise - you should be comfortable reading and reasoning about application code and understanding it in the context of deployed production services. Responsibilies * Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and infrastructure automation. * Manage and scale cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform * Maintain and extend infrastructure-as-code with Terraform/Terraform Cloud * Support database operations across PostgreSQL, Redis, BigQuery, Bigtable, and Firestore - including provisioning, scaling, backups, and performance tuning * Contribute to monitoring, alerting, and observability across production systems * Participate in on-call rotation and incident response * Support compliance and security requirements (HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 2), * HCP Terraform / Google Cloud Platform * Cursor / Linear / GitHub / Notion / Whimsical * Slack / Google Workspace / Zoom * incident.io / Sentry / Cloudsmith * Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini - we are an AI-forward engineering team * macOS / Linux ## Related Videos - [ Evaluating AI models for code comprehension](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1462-evaluating-ai-models-for-code-comprehension) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [Leveraging Real time data in FSIs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/806-leveraging-real-time-data-in-fsis) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Streaming AI Responses in Real-Time with SSE in Next.js & NestJS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1630-streaming-ai-responses-in-real-time-with-sse-in-next-js-nestjs) - [Inside Bitpanda's Tech Stack: Scaling a European Fintech Leader - Markus Dorner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1979-inside-bitpanda-s-tech-stack-scaling-a-european-fintech-leader-markus-dorner) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [What’s the Difference Between Frontend and Backend Development?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/240-what-s-the-difference-between-frontend-and-backend-development) - [Backend Developer Salary in Germany [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/196-backend-developer-salary-in-germany-2023) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [20 Essential Tools For Backend Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/218-20-essential-tools-for-backend-development)