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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Backend Engineer - **Company:** Cloudradiant Corp. - **Location:** San Jose, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $152,000.0 - $190,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Cloud Computing, Databases, Relational Databases, Distributed Systems, Middleware, Identity and Access Management, PostgreSQL, OpenID, Role-Based Access Control, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Service Development Studio, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Systems Integration, Management of Software Versions, Data Logging, Istio, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Backend, System-level Testing, Integration Tests, Kubernetes, Production Code, Build Tools, Front End Software Development, Api Design, Restful APIs, Dynatrace, Golang, Microservices - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-backend-engineer-anywhere-cloud-cloudera-9782808 ## About the Role * Experience: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping production backend systems. * Go Proficiency: Strong day-to-day Go skills. You have built and maintained Go services in production, not just written scripts or CLIs. * Kubernetes Familiarity: You understand how Kubernetes works from an application developer perspective: pods, services, deployments, CRDs, RBAC. You have deployed services to Kubernetes clusters and debugged issues in that environment. * API Design: Experience building and maintaining REST APIs. Comfort with request validation, middleware patterns, error handling, and versioning. * SQL/Relational Databases: Comfortable writing SQL, designing schemas, and managing migrations against PostgreSQL or similar. * Autonomy: You can take a loosely-defined problem, break it down, and ship a working solution without constant direction. You ask questions when stuck, not when uncertain. You may also have: * Kubernetes Operators: Experience building operators or controllers using controller-runtime/kubebuilder. Understanding of reconciliation loops and CRD design. * Helm: Experience authoring and maintaining Helm charts for complex multi-service deployments. * Auth/Security: Familiarity with OIDC, SAML, mTLS, or credential-brokering patterns (SigV4, token exchange). * Cloud Provider APIs: Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP APIs (IAM, S3, networking). * Build Systems: Comfort with Bazel, Make, or similar build tooling in a monorepo or multi-repo setup. * Observability: Experience instrumenting services with structured logging (slog), metrics, or distributed tracing. ## Description We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to build and own backend services for the Anywhere Cloud (AWC) platform. AWC is a Kubernetes-native cloud management platform that provisions and manages clusters across Cloud Providers and On Premise. You will work in Go, building services that run on Kubernetes, and collaborate closely with engineers working on operators, auth, platform infrastructure, and the frontend console. This is a hands-on IC role where you ship production code, design service APIs, and solve real distributed systems problems in a team that moves fast and keeps things simple., * Backend Service Development: Design and build Go microservices (REST APIs via Echo, Kubernetes controllers via controller-runtime) that power the AWC console and platform layer. Services include cluster lifecycle management, app deployment, authentication, and credential brokering. * Kubernetes-Native Engineering: Build operators, controllers, and jobs that run on Kubernetes. Work with Helm charts, CRDs, and the Kubernetes API directly. Understand pod lifecycle, RBAC, and service mesh (Istio) patterns. * Platform Integration: Integrate with internal platform components (CCF/Taikun provisioning API, Knox for secrets, cert-manager for TLS, Proxinator for credential indirection) and external cloud provider APIs (AWS S3/IAM, GCP). * Database and State Management: Design schemas and write migrations (golang-migrate, PostgreSQL). Own data consistency for services that manage cluster state, marketplace metadata, and deployment records. * Testing and Quality: Write unit and integration tests. Contribute to system-level test infrastructure. 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