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# Senior Backend Software Engineer

- **Company:** Nebius
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Programming Tools, Distributed Data Store, Operational Data Store, Software Engineering, Cloud Platform System, Reliability of Systems, Backend, Kubernetes, Golang
- **Published:** October 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.werk.nl/nl/vacatures/72018016

## About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Observability Platform team in Amsterdam or remotely. Building a reliable and profitable cloud platform is impossible without world-class observability. It spans every layer of the stack - from developer tooling and CI/CD pipelines to Kubernetes, managed services, databases, networking, and customer workloads. Our mission is to provide a unified ecosystem for logs, metrics, traces, alerting, and troubleshooting that enables engineers to understand and operate systems at scale. You will build and scale the core services behind this platform, working on high-volume telemetry ingestion, distributed storage, query engines, alerting pipelines, and new ways to help engineers make sense of operational data, including AI-assisted troubleshooting. We expect you to have: - 5+ years of professional software engineering experience - Strong knowledge of Golang or willingness to quickly switch to it - Experience building distributed
backend systems - Solid understanding of software reliability, scalability, and performance - Ab...