Platform Engineer – Backend Infrastructure

🔥 18 hours ago

🌐 Poland, Portugal – Remote

🇵🇱 Poland – Remote 🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote

💵 $102k - $117.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Focal Systems

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51 - 200 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🛒 Retail

🏢 Enterprise

Artificial Intelligence • Retail • Enterprise

Focal Systems is an innovative technology company focused on transforming retail operations through the deployment of advanced artificial intelligence and computer vision technologies. Their flagship product, FocalOS, automates decision-making processes within retail environments, optimizing order writing, inventory updates, and labor schedules to enhance efficiency and productivity. By utilizing ruggedized cameras and AI, Focal provides real-time shelf insights and automates tasks, significantly reducing food waste and operational costs for retailers. The company's mission is to lower living costs worldwide by enabling retailers to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and ultimately, lower prices for consumers.

📋 Description

• Own the design, operation and cost of Focal's production platform on GCP, including Kubernetes, Kafka, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and object storage • Drive measurable reductions in COGS and latency, including GPU inference cost per store, and report results • Read, debug and modify Python backend services, including FastAPI and Kafka consumers • Fix throughput bottlenecks involving consumer lag, partition count, consumer throughput, databases and autoscaling • Rework metrics, alerts and dashboards to identify affected stores and regions • Participate in incident response, postmortems and capacity planning • Build tooling to provide engineers with rapid access to data across regions and storage systems • Maintain Terraform, Helm and the deployment path to production • Collaborate with backend, deep learning and edge teams on new products and models

🎯 Requirements

• Python as a software engineer, not only for scripting; contribute to backend code every week • 5+ years building and operating production backend systems on a cloud platform • GCP preferred; deep AWS or Azure experience acceptable • Hands-on production experience operating at least one stateful system under load: Kafka or another streaming platform, MySQL/PostgreSQL, or MongoDB • Kubernetes in production, including scheduling, resource limits, autoscaling with KEDA, GPU node pools and debugging misbehaving pods • Experience debugging production incidents across application, messaging, database, orchestration and network layers • Observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Mimir and Sentry, or equivalent • Terraform or another infrastructure-as-code tool • Advanced written and spoken English • Comfortable coordinating across time zones with a global team • Comfortable with a shared on-call rotation

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Attractive Stock • Paid Time Off • Team Retreats • Education grants • Full benefits (for Employment Contract structure)

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