
Senior Infrastructure, Backend Engineer
Bird Buddy
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Ljubljana • Slovenia
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Salary
💰 €65,000 - €85,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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