Backend Engineer — infrastructure & platform clients

Nilus Talent is a boutique sourcing agency. This is a pool posting: we're sourcing backend engineers for infrastructure and platform teams at client companies, and one application covers the family of roles we're actively filling — not a single seat.

The work: internal platforms, libraries, and developer tooling used by other engineering teams. Depending on the client team, that's the infrastructure that powers the build and deployment lifecycle, modern observability stacks, or high-scale data ingestion and replication systems — establishing paved roads, eliminating toil, and reducing manual operational interventions. You'd help own the production behavior of the systems you build — runbooks, dashboards, alerts — and be a part of your team's on-call rotation, taking ownership of the services you're running.

What we look for: 3+ years building and operating backend systems in production; strong programming skills in Go, Python, or TypeScript; familiarity with Kubernetes in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and exposure to infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform); clean, well-tested software that other engineers can understand, operate, and maintain; and experience participating in blameless incident response and contributing to post-incident reviews. Platform experience helps but isn't required — readiness is what we check.

Salary: $140,000–$180,000 a year. That's the band across the client teams we source for; where a given role lands in it depends on the client and your level.

The process has 4 steps. Apply below — it takes about 2 minutes, and there's no cover letter. We send you one link to a readiness check that adapts to what you already know. You choose whether to share your results with us. If you finish strong, we put you forward to hiring teams.

We're a sourcing agency, and we'd rather be plain about what that means: completing the readiness check places you in our submission pool. We don't guarantee interviews or placement. The preparation is free and yours to keep, whatever happens.