About the Role

We're looking for a US based backend engineer to work across our data pipeline, infrastructure, and deployment systems. You'll build and maintain the services that power our Customer Data Platform — from ingestion workflows that resolve millions of customer profiles, to the infrastructure that keeps it all running on AWS.

This isn't a single-repo job. You'll move between our Python data platform, Terraform infrastructure, and Kubernetes deployment manifests depending on what the work demands.

What You'll Work On

• Data Pipeline Development — Build and extend Temporal workflows for data ingestion, audience segmentation, and profile resolution in Python 3.12 / FastAPI
• Infrastructure as Code — Provision and maintain AWS resources (EKS, RDS, S3, IRSA) using Terraform, deployed via Terraform Cloud
• Deployment & GitOps — Manage Kustomize manifests and ArgoCD-driven deployments to EKS, including sync-wave orchestration for zero-downtime releases
• Cross-Service Integration — Work at the boundaries between services — API contracts, event-driven workflows, and shared infrastructure dependencies
• Observability — Instrument services, investigate production issues, and improve monitoring across the platform

What We're Looking For

Must-Have

• 3–5 years backend engineering experience
• Strong Python — you've built production services, not just scripts
• Relational database experience (PostgreSQL preferred) — schema design, migrations, query optimization
• Comfort with REST API design and async patterns
• Familiarity with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes basics)
• Git workflow proficiency — you work in PRs, understand branching strategies

Strong Preference

• Temporal or similar workflow orchestration (Airflow, Step Functions, Prefect)
• Terraform or equivalent IaC tool — you've written modules, not just run applies
• AWS services experience (EKS, RDS, S3, IAM/IRSA, Secrets Manager)
• Kustomize or Helm for Kubernetes configuration
• FastAPI or similar async Python web framework
• SQLAlchemy (async) and Alembic migrations

Nice to Have

• ArgoCD / GitOps deployment patterns
• Meltano / Singer ecosystem (ELT pipelines)
• Multi-tenant SaaS architecture experience
• CI/CD pipeline design (GitHub Actions)
• Experience with External Secrets Operator or similar secrets management