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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Backend Staff Engineer - **Company:** Priva - **Location:** De Lier, Netherlands - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** .NET Framework, Application Performance Management, User Authentication, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Command-Query Responsibility Segregation (Software Development), Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Firmware, Key Management, PostgreSQL, SQL Azure, Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT), NoSQL, Queueing Systems, Redis, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Software Requirements Analysis, Management of Software Versions, Web Applications, Digital Twin, Data Logging, Cloud Monitoring, System Availability, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Deployment Automation, Bicep, Cosmos DB, Front End Software Development, Event Sourcing, Api Design, Domain Driven Design, Industrial Software, Dynatrace, Predix, Docker - **Published:** May 21, 2026 - **Apply:** https://nl.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8c405d6004f0f302 ## About the Role Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, We are looking for an experienced engineer with strong technical leadership capabilities and a system-level mindset. Furthermore, we will look for: * Extensive experience building backend systems using C# and .NET * Proven experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production * Practical experience with Akka.NET and actor-based architectures * Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture on Microsoft Azure * Experience with event-driven systems, message queues, background processing, and distributed workflows * Strong knowledge of API design, versioning, authentication, and authorization * Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, Redis, or similar technologies * Good understanding of observability, including structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting and dashboards * Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, and production operations * Strong engineering judgment and the ability to simplify complex technical problems * The ability to influence technical decisions across teams without relying on formal authority * A strong focus on reliability, maintainability, security, and operational excellence * Clear communication skills and the ability to explain technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders * A mentoring mindset and a desire to help other engineers grow * Strong debugging and problem-solving skills at both code and system level Nice to have experience with: * Cloud-connected embedded products, IoT systems, building automation, industrial systems, energy systems, or similar high-reliability environments. * Azure IoT Hub, Device Provisioning Service, Digital Twins, MQTT, or edge-to-cloud architectures * Event sourcing, CQRS, domain-driven design, or stateful distributed systems * Docker or Bicep * OpenTelemetry, Application Insights, Azure Monitor, or similar observability platforms * Security-by-design practices, including identity, secrets management, secure communication, and least-privilege access. * Reliability engineering practices such as failure-mode analysis, chaos testing, operational readiness reviews, and post-incident learning * Products with long lifecycles, high uptime expectations, and low maintenance requirements ## Description At Priva, we are building the next generation of building automation systems: cloud-connected, security-first, and designed for long-term reliability. You will work on an innovative IoT platform that combines embedded controllers, edge gateways, and cloud services to keep buildings running safely for 10-15 years with minimal maintenance. As a Backend Staff Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the architecture, reliability, and long-term maintainability of our cloud-connected backend platform. You will use your deep technical expertise to help us build resilient, observable, and scalable backend solutions. You will guide technical direction, support teams in making sound architectural decisions, and raise the engineering standard across backend development. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who loves the challenge of combining hands-on engineering with system-level thinking, technical leadership, and a strong focus on reliability. Your team You will join Team Amazey, a team of experienced frontend, backend and QA Engineers, responsible for all cloud services related to Nuro Creator web application. Since the product is nearing launch, it is all hands on board to make this happen: getting features to users, continuous improving SW quality in ways that are helpful for ourselves all whilst maintaining integrity of the users projects when migrations are required. What you'll do * Translate product and system requirements into scalable backend designs * Lead the design and development of backend services using C# 12 and .NET 8 * Define backend architecture for cloud-connected products * Review critical technical designs and code, especially in areas that affect reliability, security, scalability, or maintainability * Design solutions with a focus on high availability, resilience and long-term maintainability * Guide teams on distributed-system concerns * Collaborate closely with our internal and external teams including hardware, firmware and QA * Improve engineering practices around deployment and monitoring * Support root-cause analysis and drive durable corrective actions after production issues * Mentor engineers and help raise the technical maturity of the backend engineering organization * Make pragmatic technical trade-offs between speed, quality, cost, risk, and long-term maintainability. ## Related Videos - [Back(end) to the Future: Embracing the continuous Evolution of Infrastructure and Code](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/440-back-end-to-the-future-embracing-the-continuous-evolution-of-infrastructure-and-code) - [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) - [Reducing LLM Calls with Vector Search Patterns - Raphael De Lio (Redis)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1714-reducing-llm-calls-with-vector-search-patterns-raphael-de-lio-redis) - [Tomorrow's cloud data platforms - fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/254-tomorrow-s-cloud-data-platforms-fully-managed-database-as-a-service-dbaas) - [Accelerating Authentication Architecture: Taking Passwordless to the Next Level](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/733-accelerating-authentication-architecture-taking-passwordless-to-the-next-level) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Best Companies in the Netherlands: Top 25 Companies in 2023 ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/193-best-companies-in-the-netherlands-top-25-companies-in-2023)