Senior Backend Engineer – Infrastructure

Lyric

full-time

Posted on: 9/22/2025

Origin: • 🇮🇳 India

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About the role

Architect and develop Kubernetes operators and controllers to automate and manage Lyric’s platform workloads.
Design and implement control plane and data plane services that provide orchestration, routing, monitoring, and self-healing of distributed components.
Build internal developer tooling and platform APIs to enhance developer productivity and operational excellence.
Design and maintain IaC frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane) to provision and manage cloud infrastructure securely and reproducibly.
Establish and improve observability, reliability, and resilience of critical infrastructure components.
Work closely with SREs, platform engineers, and application teams to ensure infrastructure meets evolving product needs.
Contribute to infrastructure architecture and technical direction for scale, security, and developer experience.
Solve tough distributed systems challenges and help scale Lyric’s infrastructure in a cloud-native, multi-tenant environment.

5+ years of experience building backend or infrastructure systems, ideally in cloud-native environments.
Deep experience with Kubernetes internals, operators/controllers, CRDs, and the Kubernetes API.
Strong software engineering skills in languages such as Go (preferred), Rust, or Python.
Hands-on experience designing distributed systems and working with control plane/data plane architectures.
Proficiency with IaC tools and practices (Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, etc.).
Solid understanding of containerization, orchestration, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Familiarity with observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and operational best practices for production systems.
Strong problem-solving, debugging, and performance optimization skills.
Experience building platform services in a multi-tenant SaaS environment. (Nice to have)
Familiarity with service meshes, workload identity, and cloud-native security patterns. (Nice to have)
Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects. (Nice to have)