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Staff Cloud Backend Developer

ALSO· Software Engineering
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Palo Alto$200k - $250kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Staff Backend Developer focusing on building and scaling the core backend and IoT infrastructure for ALSO's connected EV platform, including secure data ingestion, APIs, and fleet intelligence. Lead architectural decisions, drive cloud infrastructure improvements, ensure security and reliability, mentor engineers, and help shape engineering best practices and team culture.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the architecture and implementation of backend systems to support secure, scalable IoT infrastructure and its fleet management
  • Drive improvements to core cloud infrastructure: API design, database schema, service interactions, event handling, observability, and deployment workflows
  • Contribute to shared services for API gateway, caches, and schema upgrades
  • Build data and API integrations with external services and partner platforms
  • Strengthen security and privacy across the platform, including user authentication
  • Design and implement systems for high availability and geographic redundancy, ensuring reliability across global deployments
  • Ensure production readiness with automated testing, performance monitoring, and deployment safety
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to technical decision-making, hiring processes, and engineering best practices
  • Drive and define a team culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning

Qualifications

  • 10+ years building and scaling back-end systems, including at least one full lifecycle of managing remote devices
  • Proven ability to design, ship, and operate production systems from scratch
  • Strong experience with AWS (e.g. Lambda, ECR/ECS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM)
  • Mastery of API design (REST/GraphQL), schema design, and data exchange (gRPC/JSON-RPC)
  • Excellent knowledge of event-driven architecture and message queueing systems (e.g. Kafka, Redis, SQS/SNS, pub/sub patterns)
  • Experience with authentication/authorization protocols (OAuth2, OID, JWT, SAML, mTLS)
  • Familiarity with IoT protocols (MQTT, CoAP), device lifecycle management, and telemetry pipelines

Skills

Required:Backend architecture and designAWS proficiencyAPI design (REST/GraphQL)Event-driven architectureSecurity protocols
Nice to have:IoT protocols

Benefits

  • Robust health coverage — excellent health, dental and vision insurance covered up to 100% by ALSO with FSA & HSA options
  • One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates
  • Rich fertility and family building benefits with Progyny
  • Flexible time off
  • 401(k) match
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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