Backend Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Job description

**Software Engineer, Infrastructure** **Almaty, Kazakhstan** Build the shared infrastructure that helps Higgsfield’s product teams ship quickly and run reliable services. You’ll own problems from finding the bottleneck to shipping a solution and supporting it in production. **What you’ll do** - Build shared services for queues, job scheduling, caching, configuration, and service communication. - Improve concurrency limits, resource allocation, and recovery for long-running media workloads. - Make database access, migrations, and connection management safer and faster. - Simplify service setup, testing, deployment, and production debugging. - Improve observability, investigate incidents, and reduce infrastructure cost per completed job. - Work directly with product engineers, ship focused improvements, and measure the results. Our release cycle is days, not quarters. **Required** - Experience running production systems on **Kubernetes (K8s) and AWS**, including deployments, scaling, networking, and troubleshooting. - Strong software engineering skills: you build shared services, tools, and automation that other engineers use. - Experience with databases, queues, and distributed systems, including performance debugging, safe rollouts, and recovery. - A difficult production problem you owned from an unclear starting point to a working solution. - Ability to set priorities, make practical tradeoffs, remove blockers, and ask for help when needed. - Clear communication, openness to feedback, and knowledge sharing so others can operate and extend your work. **Nice to have** - Cloudflare. - Infrastructure as code. - PostgreSQL, Redis, or event-streaming systems. - High-throughput media pipelines or AI workload orchestration. **Interview process** 1. Recruiter screen: expectations, logistics, and fit. 2. Technical interview: a difficult system you shipped, your decisions, and the results. 3. Additional technical interview, if needed. 4. Product fit interview: investigate a team’s bottleneck and plan a practical improvement, adoption, and safe rollout. 5. Offer. **What we offer** Competitive base pay in USD, equity, relocation support, and ownership of infrastructure used across our engineering teams.