Position:
Senior Backend Engineer
Company:
Masthead Data
Location:
Worldwide (Remote)
Employment type:
Fulltime
Short Summary:
Masthead Data is seeking a full-time remote Senior Backend Engineer to own significant parts of their platform, focusing on architecture and production. The role involves working with large volumes of audit-log and metadata events, ensuring security and cost optimization for enterprise customers.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and operate backend services in Kotlin (Spring Boot) running on GKE
- Work across data pipeline: BigQuery, Pub/Sub, PostgreSQL, and GCP-native tooling
- Build and refine systems for cost optimization and observability features
- Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform
- Uphold and extend zero-data-access security model
- Contribute to architecture decisions, code reviews, and team growth
Requirement:
- Strong backend experience with Kotlin (or Java with willingness to move to Kotlin) and Spring Boot
- Hands-on experience running production workloads on Kubernetes, ideally GKE
- Ability to drive ambiguous problems to production results
- Solid grounding in GCP — BigQuery, Pub/Sub, IAM, and related services
- Comfort with infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform
- Experience with PostgreSQL and designing data-intensive backend systems
- Security-conscious mindset and appreciation for data-access constraints
Benefits:
- Join a small, senior team solving complex problems
- Work visible to enterprise customers from day one
- Opportunity to shape both the product and the development process