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# Infrastructure/Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Mlabs Ltd
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $320,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Automation of Tests, Code Generation, Programming Tools, Github, PostgreSQL, Uptime, Octopus Deploy, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Zero Trust Network Access, Grafana, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Backend, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Vertica, Terraform, Docker, Legacy Systems, Golang
- **Published:** June 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d4dbeea3f653f295

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Terraform?, Technical Foundations

 * Core infrastructure fundaments (security, networking, access control, etc).
 * Strong experience with kubernetes and kubernetes best practices.
 * Hands-on experience with Terraform, ArgoCD, Github Action, Docker, Prometheus, and Grafana. Evangelist of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
 * Experience writing backend applications in Golang
 * Experience with Postgres, Clickhouse, Dagster (Nice to have)

Professional Characteristics

 * Security-Minded: A proactive approach to zero-trust architecture, security configuration, and continuous system hardening.
 * Advanced Tool Leverage: High proficiency in leveraging advanced AI and development tools effectively-possessing the technical depth to rigorously validate outputs, establish guardrails, and avoid passive code generation.
 * Solution-Oriented & Autonomous: Ability to independently audit the existing stack, identify operational gaps, prioritize tasks based on commercial value, and execute solutions.
 * Collaborative Rigor: Strong alignment with a "disagree and commit" philosophy; maintaining a team-first mindset that prioritizes collective execution and continuous cross-functional learning alongside quantitative researchers and operations teams.

## Description

* Infrastructure Migration & Optimization: Drive the comprehensive migration of applications and core services from legacy systems to a highly resilient, modern infrastructure stack.
 * Platform Self-Service & Orchestration: Mature and scale internal testing and validation tools, including local stack orchestration frameworks, allowing developers to execute applications flexibly and coordinate multiple automated agents simultaneously.
 * Latency Reduction: Collaborate closely with application engineering teams to optimize critical-path applications, identifying and resolving software and infrastructure bottlenecks to minimize latency and maximize financial edge.
 * Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Maintain, deploy, and manage 100% of the production environment utilizing IaC methodologies, ensuring absolute consistency, visibility, and automation across all layers.
 * Security & Reliability Engineering: Actively identify, mitigate, and minimize security attack vectors; coordinate contained chaos-engineering tests and system stress-tests using automated testing suites and advanced technical tools to guarantee maximum uptime.


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