Senior Backend / DevOps Engineer
Posted 7hrs ago
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Senior Backend / DevOps Engineer at Abstra developing RESTful APIs and managing AWS infrastructure. Collaborating in a remote team to enhance cloud capabilities and coding standards.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable RESTful APIs using FastAPI
- Own and improve our AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, IAM, etc.)
- Manage CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline, or equivalent)
- Collaborate on database design, query optimization, and migrations (PostgreSQL / SQLAlchemy / DynamoDB)
- Write clean, well-tested Python code following best practices
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering standards
- Monitor system health, respond to incidents, and improve observability (logging, alerting)
- Contribute to architecture decisions and technical planning discussions
Requirements:
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, primarily in Python
- Strong hands-on experience with FastAPI (or comparable async Python frameworks)
- Deep familiarity with AWS services and infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation, Terraform, or similar frameworks)
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, ECS or EKS)
- Proficiency with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB; experience with ORM frameworks (SQLAlchemy 2.0 preferred)
- Strong communication skills in English (written and spoken)
- Comfortable working asynchronously and autonomously within a remote-first team
- Experience with ETL pipelines or data engineering workflows
- Familiarity with PostHog, Sentry, or similar observability/analytics tools
Benefits:
- Flexible working hours and remote work options.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
- A collaborative and inclusive work environment.
- The chance to work on impactful projects with a talented team.
- Excellent compensation in USD.
- Hardware and software setup (mandatory).


















