Backend and DevOps Engineer – Mid-level
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Backend & DevOps Engineer at Augur Security using AI to predict cyberattacks. Responsible for backend services, infrastructure management, and maintaining SOC 2 compliance.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain Python-based backend services and REST APIs
- Own data models and query optimization across MongoDB and PostgreSQL
- Write clean, tested, production-grade code and participate in code review
- Build internal tooling and automation scripts to accelerate the team
- Containerize services with Docker and manage deployment configs
- Debug and resolve application-layer issues quickly, in direct collaboration with engineering
- Administer our AWS environment (EC2, ECS, RDS, IAM, networking)
- Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines; manage self-hosted and cloud build agents
- Own our observability stack (Datadog): dashboards, alerts, log pipelines, and metrics
- Help manage cloud-native services like Elasticsearch and Kafka, with a focus on deployment and monitoring
- Implement DevSecOps best practices: access control, secret management, auditing, and certificate renewals
- Maintain SOC 2 compliance controls and contribute to audit readiness
- Write clear technical documentation and lead incident retrospectives to drive reliability improvements
Requirements:
- 4-5 years of backend engineering and/or DevOps experience, with meaningful time in both disciplines
- Production Python: service development, REST API design, scripting, and automation
- Strong SQL skills and hands-on MongoDB experience
- Docker for containerization; comfortable writing and debugging Dockerfiles and Compose configs
- AWS fundamentals: EC2, ECS, RDS, IAM, and networking
- CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions or similar platforms
- SOC 2 compliance exposure or equivalent security controls experience
- Strong troubleshooting instincts across both app and infra layers
- You write documentation that people actually read.
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Flexible remote-first work environment



















