BackEnd Engineer

Position: BackEnd Engineer (Google Cloud Platform) Location: Palo Alto, CA Full time Salary: $160k - $180k + Benefits

Job Description:

• 5+ years of experience in backend software development, with a focus on cloud infrastructure and deployment.
• Strong GCP experience, including GKE, IAM, Cloud Build, Cloud Run, or equivalent services.
• Proficient in Python (primary) and Go (secondary), especially for backend service and scripting.
• Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) in production.
• Familiarity with Terraform, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud resource management.
• Understanding of secure deployment practices and least-privilege IAM design.
• Experience integrating and serving LLMs or other GenAI models in cloud-based environments is a plus.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous, and cross-functional startup environments.