Senior Software Developer, Backend

🕒 March 27

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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CloudCops GmbH

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2023

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🔒 Cybersecurity

Consulting • Marketing • Cybersecurity

CloudCops GmbH is a cloud and DevOps consultancy that designs, builds, and secures cloud-native and cloud-agnostic infrastructure for startups, SMEs, and enterprises. The company focuses on Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps, Kubernetes platform engineering, automation, observability, and security/compliance using open-source CNCF tools to optimize DevOps KPIs like deployment frequency, cycle time, and mean time to recovery. CloudCops offers cloud strategy, migration, ongoing support, and cost/performance optimization across AWS, Azure, and GCP with a strong security-first and vendor-agnostic approach.

📋 Description

• Design and build scalable backend services with Django / Django REST Framework • Lead architecture reviews in client projects and our own start-ups • Create rock-solid task queues with Celery + Redis / RabbitMQ / Kafka • Implement event-streaming integrations via Kafka or RabbitMQ (publishing, consuming, schema management) • Performance tuning, caching strategies and database optimisation (PostgreSQL, plus NoSQL where it makes sense) • Own the full lifecycle: Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, incident response • Drive code reviews & mentoring for mid- and junior engineers • Use AI coding tools responsibly – knowing when they add value and when they don’t

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years production experience with Django (incl. DRF) • Proven open-source contributions (share your GitHub) • Deep knowledge of Celery, distributed messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ) and async processing • Git power user, strong in shell & scripting (Bash/Python) • Hands-on with containers & cloud (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure) • Clean-code mindset

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first – work from anywhere • Output-oriented culture: we measure results, not time at the desk • Flat hierarchy, large say in tech & tooling decisions • Annual budget for conferences, certifications & hardware of your choice • Freedom to shape your contract: working hours, vacation, etc. are flexible – you come first • A team that truly lives Open Source & Clean Code