Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer (GCP)
By changing the way people explore restaurants, Beli has emerged as one of the fastest-growing consumer platforms in the country. Beli helps people build organized restaurant lists and maps, share them with friends, and discover new spots around the world according to their personal taste.
We’re building a highly personalized consumer platform with real-time social activity, recommendation systems, maps, and large-scale data infrastructure. As our user base grows rapidly, we’re investing heavily in scalability, reliability, security, and developer infrastructure.
Job Overview
We’re looking for an experienced Backend Infrastructure Engineer to help scale the core systems powering Beli.
In this role, you’ll own critical parts of our backend and infrastructure stack on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including application scalability, cloud architecture, reliability, observability, security, CI/CD, and developer tooling. You’ll work closely with the CTO and engineering team to ensure Beli remains fast, reliable, and secure as we continue to grow.
This is a highly impactful role with significant ownership and autonomy. The ideal candidate enjoys building robust systems in fast-moving startup environments and is excited to shape the technical foundation of a rapidly growing consumer product.
Responsibilities
Backend Architecture & Scalability
- Design and implement scalable backend systems and infrastructure
- Improve performance, reliability, and efficiency across our services and databases
- Optimize Postgres, caching layers, background job systems, and APIs
- Design systems that support rapid product iteration while maintaining operational excellence
- Lead architectural decisions around scalability, resiliency, and distributed systems
Infrastructure & DevOps
- Own and improve our cloud infrastructure and deployment systems on GCP
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and operational dashboards
- Improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response processes
- Manage infrastructure automation and environment consistency
- Improve engineering velocity through internal tooling and platform improvements
Security & Reliability
- Strengthen application and infrastructure security across the stack
- Implement best practices around authentication, authorization, secrets management, and data protection
- Lead efforts around uptime, disaster recovery, backups, and operational resilience
- Conduct infrastructure reviews, audits, and reliability improvements
Engineering Collaboration
- Partner closely with product and engineering teams to support new feature development
- Help establish engineering best practices and technical standards
- Mentor engineers on backend architecture, infrastructure, and operational excellence
- Participate in technical planning and long-term architecture discussions
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience as a software engineer focused on backend systems, infrastructure, or platform engineering
- Strong experience designing and operating scalable production systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Experience with GCP services such as Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Load Balancing, IAM, and Monitoring
- Strong experience with Python and backend frameworks such as Django
- Deep knowledge of CI/CD, observability, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated deployments
- Strong understanding of production security best practices and operational reliability
- Experience optimizing Postgres performance and database design
- Ability to operate independently and take ownership in fast-paced startup environments
- Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Grit, hustle, intellectual curiosity, and a strong builder mentality
Nice to Have
- Experience scaling consumer social or marketplace products
- Experience with asynchronous systems and job queues
- Experience building internal developer platforms or tooling
- Experience at high-growth startups
Technologies We Use
- Python / Django
- Postgres
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Cloud Tasks
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- TypeScript / Angular
Compensation
Compensation will be determined based on experience and skills. This position includes meaningful equity as part of the total compensation package.