Cloud Backend Engineer

November 5

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VIDA

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Compliance • Energy • Government

VIDA is a company that provides map-based software to assess the location risks of infrastructure, such as wind farms, power grids, data centers, transportation sites, and more. With access to over 50 global data layers, VIDA simplifies the evaluation of climate, ESG, demand, and accessibility risks globally. The platform facilitates teamwork by allowing project sharing with team members and external partners, enabling them to contribute comments, notes, and supporting documents. VIDA is used by infrastructure funds, banks, multinationals, and governments in over 40 countries to perform due diligence and manage climate risks, automate ESG reporting, and assess impact. The company supports data-based decision making and ensures seamless progression from initial assessment to comprehensive due diligence.

11 - 50 employees

📋 Compliance

⚡ Energy

🏛️ Government

📋 Description

• Own and optimize our cloud infrastructure on GCP , ensuring secure, reliable, and cost‑efficient systems. • Build and maintain observability with Datadog by creating actionable dashboards and monitors, strengthening logging and security compliance, and proactively investigating anomalies. • Operate and improve our container and orchestration stack by managing Kubernetes (including Helm, ingress, and ArgoCD) and Docker to deliver resilient, scalable services. • Lead core security practices as part of our ISMS team , ensuring we keep up our ISO 27001 certification, identifying and addressing security-related issues, coordinating external tests (e.g. pentests), and leveraging tools like Vanta. • Help administer key tools and integrations by managing Slack, Linear, Notion, GitHub connectivity, handling user and access management, and overseeing Google Workspace email and group configuration. • Own authentication and authorization end to end, designing and implementing RBAC with tools like Auth0 and OSO to ensure secure, least‑privilege access. • Maintain and evolve our data layer by keeping databases, schemas, and migrations accurate, performant, and well documented across environments. • Contribute across the stack when needed, with bonus if you bring front‑end JavaScript experience. • Help prototype and develop AI powered features in the VIDA platform. • Build, test, and operate the APIs that power our platform, enabling reliable access to climate risk data and integrations with internal and third‑party systems. • Design, debug, and harden geospatial data pipelines , turning raw inputs into the datasets we deliver to customers with strong guarantees on quality, performance, and observability.

🎯 Requirements

• You have some years of experience under your belt (ideally 5+). • You have strong Python skills and are well familiar with its ecosystem. • You're used to writing clean code and you're versed in design patterns and best practices and know when to use them. • You have built complex APIs before, and are familiar with things like what makes an API RESTful. • You're used to thoroughly testing your work. • You know databases and ORMs. • You've used Auth solutions such as OAuth, JWT and RBAC. • You know the cloud (GCP preferred) and DevOps principles. • You're familiar with CI/CD pipelines, and have worked with Docker and Kubernetes, and serverless services. • You have experience with IaaC (Terraform preferred). • You have knowledge of infrastructure monitoring: You've used monitoring/observability tools such as Datadog. • You care about Developer Experience and are keen to help improve how we build, test and ship software. • You're a great communicator and team player. • You're comfortably fluent in English. • You're used to documenting your work and sharing knowledge with others.

🏖️ Benefits

• 28 vacation days + public holidays in your country of residence. • 500€ educational budget per year that you can use for any kind of learning resource & 500€ setup budget for any equipment of your choice. • Fully remote working & flexibility. • Participation in our VSOP program: At VIDA, all team members are included in our VSOP program, ensuring everyone shares in our success. • Shape our success story and company culture from the ground up and see the direct influence of your work.