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GovSignals · 3 months ago

Backend Engineer

New York

Full-time

Onsite

Entry, Mid Level

2+ years exp

GovSignals is shaping the future of government contracting with AI-driven solutions. As a Backend Engineer, you will work with the CTO to scale infrastructure and build high-performance backend systems, enhancing developer experience and ensuring compliance.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Enterprise SoftwareGovTech

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Architect and ship backend services and APIs, including Cloudflare Workers written in TypeScript for real-time data ingestion, routing, and security at the edge

Operate and scale Kubernetes on EKS by designing, hardening, and expanding our multi‑cluster AWS environment for high‑throughput AI and data workloads

Leverage and extend modern PaaS tools, self-hosting open-source equivalents where needed for control or compliance

Build reusable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Helm, and more that deliver both code and infrastructure safely and repeatably

Integrate and manage our Postgres data layer for storage, row‑level security, and authentication workflows across internal and customer‑facing applications

Instrument systems with Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, and distributed tracing through OpenTelemetry and Tempo to achieve 99.99 percent uptime and clear SLOs

Champion DevSecOps best practices, including automated testing, vulnerability scanning, secret management, and compliance readiness (FedRAMP, NIST)

Partner with the broader engineering team and product to plan capacity, refine SLAs, and accelerate DevX (Developer Experience) for our product engineers

Qualification

KubernetesAWSTypeScriptDockerCI/CDPostgresDevSecOpsGitHub ActionsObservability

Required

Two or more years running production Kubernetes or EKS environments at scale

Expertise with Docker and container fundamentals

Experience authoring Terraform‑driven AWS infrastructure

Proficient in TypeScript or Javascript and comfortable working with Cloudflare Workers, Node services, and related tooling

CI/CD and GitOps background using GitHub Actions and automated testing

Experience with observability stacks like Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager

Preferred

Bonus experience with Open Source contributions: Zero Trust networking, Postgres performance tuning, FedRAMP High, NIST 800‑171, or CMMC Level 2, FinOps cost-optimization, and AI tooling for DevX