Backend Engineer (Infra.) - Onsite

Harmonic Inc.
New York, NY, United States
about 1 month ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
3 years minimum
Compensation
$150,000.0 - $220,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Encodings Computer Engineering Python (Programming Language) TypeScript Backend Kubernetes Terraform Docker

Requirements

We are looking for a Backend Infrastructure Engineer with 3-6+ years of experience to own and scale the core infrastructure powering Peri’s enterprise product. You’ll be one of the first engineering hires at a freshly funded ($4M seed) AI-native startup building the context layer for human work - managing multi-tenant deployments, handling 800M+ rows of data, and making architectural decisions that define the platform.

What will you be doing?

Optimizing and hardening the existing AWS-based product infrastructure to support rapid scaling of customer deployments.

Building and maintaining multi-tenant deployment architecture - managing permissioning, data isolation, and redeployability across enterprise customers.

Owning the infrastructure-as-code layer (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker) and making decisions on what services and patterns enable easier scaling

Building new features and capabilities as signal comes in from design partners.

Encoding learnings from bespoke customer deployments back into the core product

Tech stack: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, TypeScript, LangChai

Baseline Seniority: 3 - 6 years of experience in backend/infra engineering Work experience

Education : CS, computer engineering, or equivalent technical degree

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