Senior Backend Engineer
AI-first industrial company that develops advanced materials, hardware, and manufacturing systems, currently beginning with AI data-center infrastructure.
Funding history
About Orbital Industries
Orbital Industries embeds frontier AI across materials discovery, hardware design, and manufacturing. Its current offerings include the CurieOS science-and-engineering AI operating system and the Orbital IT data-center-infrastructure brand.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, build, and operate backend systems, including APIs, services, data pipelines, integrations, and infrastructure. You will own features from design through monitoring and iteration, improve reliability and observability, contribute to architecture, and work with researchers, product engineers, and domain experts.
Requirements
- Backend engineering
- API
- Data pipeline
- Event-driven architecture
- Python
- Go
- Rust
- Java
- Kotlin
- Database
- Graph database
- Message queue
- Cache
- Cloud infrastructure
- System design
- Data modelling
- Distributed system
- Debugging
Responsibilities
- Design and implement APIs, services, and data pipelines
- Build and maintain integrations between AI models, scientific tools, and internal workflows
- Own backend features from design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration
- Write tested, maintainable code and contribute through code review and documentation
- Improve system observability, reliability, and performance
- Make technical decisions balancing delivery speed and maintainability
- Translate stakeholder needs into backend solutions
- Contribute to platform architecture
- Share knowledge, mentor peers, and establish best practices