Bird Buddy

Senior Infrastructure, Backend Engineer

Bird Buddy

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: LjubljanaSlovenia

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Salary

💰 €65,000 - €85,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Own and improve our AWS infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, monitoring, CI/CD support)
  • Improve reliability: alerting, observability, incident response, runbooks, and postmortems
  • Drive cloud security best practices: IAM hygiene, secrets management, least privilege, audits
  • Lead AWS cost optimization: right-sizing, lifecycle policies, reserved capacity strategy, ongoing spend reviews
  • Support production operations and build tooling that reduces operational load for the team
  • Build and maintain backend services running on AWS
  • Improve scalability and performance of APIs and data flows

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS in production environments
  • Backend engineering experience (e.g., building APIs/services, designing scalable components)
  • Familiarity with monitoring/observability tools and incident management practices
  • Track record of delivering pragmatic cost optimizations without sacrificing reliability
  • Comfortable working cross-functionally and owning systems end-to-end
  • Familiarity / Experience with Infrastructure as a Code (Terraform) and Kubernetes
Benefits
  • Competitive stock options
  • At least 25 days of paid leave
  • Open-ended contract with trial period
  • Own Bird Buddy Feeder and Bird Buddy Premium Family subscription
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSbackend engineeringAPIsInfrastructure as CodeTerraformKubernetesmonitoring toolsobservability toolsincident managementcost optimization
Soft Skills
cross-functional collaborationownershipreliability improvementincident responsealertingscalabilityperformance improvement