Senior Backend Engineer

DataRobot

full-time

Posted on: 10/15/2025

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada

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About the role

Develop, test, and support features of DataRobot.
Create and maintain automated unit tests and functional tests.
Design infrastructure for new features with the input of peers.
Manage individual projects and milestones with abundant communication of progress.
Seek, give, and receive critical feedback in a constructive manner, including but not limited to code reviews.
Engage in engineering on-call escalated support of services owned by the team

6+ years of proven experience writing high-quality code in a collaborative environment preferably using Python
Strong Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.
An understanding of design for scalability, performance, and reliability.
Deep experience with automated testing and test-driven development
Demonstrable knowledge of software architecture for large systems
Real-world experience decoupling monolithic software into smaller reusable components
Self-motivated and proactive, able to take ownership and deliver results.
Ability and willingness to learn about new technologies.
Fundamental understanding of Kubernetes and Helm.
Experience in building and running software systems on Kubernetes clusters in production
Hands-on experience with infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles
Nice to have: Experience with AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud platforms
CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer) certification
Publicly reviewable contributions to interesting development projects.
Experience supporting user-facing code and APIs.
ML experience
Identity and Access Management experience
CI/CD pipeline experience
Experience with gpu clusters, either as a user or administrator
Experience in multi-node AI/ML

Benefits

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Pythonautomated testingtest-driven developmentsoftware architectureKubernetesHelmInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD pipelineMLIdentity and Access Management

collaborative environmentproblem-solvingself-motivatedproactiveownershipcommunicationcritical feedbackconstructive feedbackcode reviewsengagement

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