Senior Backend, Infrastructure Engineer

Brellium

Senior Backend / Infrastructure Engineer focused on designing scalable systems at Brellium, an AI-powered healthcare technology company. Building robust backends to ensure reliability and performance under increased load.

Posted 4/12/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $190,000 - $260,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and evolve distributed systems to support 10x growth in session volume
Improve throughput, fault tolerance, and system resilience across the core pipeline
Build scalable data pipelines and processing infrastructure
Strengthen observability, monitoring, and incident response
Reduce operational bottlenecks and technical debt
Collaborate with AI and product teams to ensure the underlying systems can support new capabilities at scale

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a backend/infrastructure focus
Expertise in Python and AWS infrastructure.
Experience building and scaling data-intensive applications and pipelines
Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and database internals
Proven track record of improving system reliability and performance in production

Benefits

Comp & perks

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
Equity Compensation
Dinner Provided via DoorDash & stocked kitchen for NY employees
Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage coverage of up to 100% premiums for you and your family
HSA / FSA
11 paid holidays each year
Unlimited PTO
Training and professional development
Hybrid Work Schedule (4 days onsite, 3 if located > 1 hour away)

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonAWSdistributed systemsdata pipelinessystem resiliencethroughput improvementfault tolerancedatabase internalsconcurrencysystem reliability

Soft Skills

collaborationproblem-solvingcommunication