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# Senior Backend Engineer, Deployment Environments

- **Company:** The Ladders
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $135,000 - $160,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Engineering, Distributed Systems, Backend, Kubernetes
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/px8fsz47vj

## About the Role

* Strong backend engineering experience, ideally with Kubernetes-based systems or distributed applications
 * Experience with deployment architecture, environment management, or cloud-native operations
 * Comfortable working at the intersection of developer workflows and production infrastructure
 * Good systems thinking around service dependencies and deployment patterns
 * Collaborative and pragmatic approach to building durable platform capabilities

## Description

This role focuses on building and improving the infrastructure that supports deployment environments across cloud-native and self-managed contexts. You will work on the systems and workflows that help teams validate changes earlier, maintain consistency from development through production, and deliver reliable deployment guidance. The position partners closely with packaging, testing, and platform teams to strengthen developer workflows and production readiness., * Build tooling and workflows for cloud-native and self-managed deployment environments

 * Contribute to cloud-native deployment guidance, including architecture patterns and scaling principles
 * Improve ephemeral environments for earlier validation with production reality
 * Maintain consistency of deployment artifacts from development through production
 * Partner with teams on packaging, testing, and customer-facing deployment guidance