Staff Backend Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Emerald Cloud Lab

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51 - 200 employees

🧬 Biotechnology

🏥 Healthcare

🔬 Science

Biotechnology • Healthcare • Science

Emerald Cloud Lab is a biotechnology research company that provides researchers access to state-of-the-art scientific labs from anywhere in the world, available 24/7. By utilizing a single software interface, researchers can design, run, and analyze experiments more efficiently, allowing them to focus on protocol design and data analysis instead of time-consuming lab activities. This platform enhances productivity while reducing operational costs and environmental impact.

📋 Description

• Design and develop highly scalable backend services with performance and security • Collaborate with designers, scientists, and engineers to deliver products solving laboratory challenges • Help set technical and product direction, including determining product features and implementation approaches • Ensure continual high-availability operation of services using reliability practices, detailed observability, and on-call participation • Participate in code reviews and troubleshoot performance or security issues • Advocate for healthy and maintainable software practices • Improve a hybrid object/graph multi-tenant data store for biology and chemistry experiments • Develop services to gather real-time sensor data from laboratories for operator feedback and cloud processing • Build services to safely distribute and execute simulation, analysis, and testing code in SLL • Work with the Scientific Development team on data storage, retrieval, and search functions in SLL

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience providing backend development to products and enterprise software • 6+ years of hands-on Cloud or AWS development • Experience with database technologies (SQL or NoSQL) • Experience working with startups or small growing companies • Full life cycle experience with software product development • Preferred: Experience with Kubernetes and Docker for containerization • Preferred: Experience with distributed systems • Preferred: Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail • Preferred: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern build tooling • Preferred: Exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), containers, and observability • Backend services experience with Go, Python, or Rust • Experience with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is relevant to the stated technology stack

🏖️ Benefits

• On-call rotation participation • Continuous integration and agile development practices • Opportunity to contribute to software engineering practices and technical/product direction

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