Senior Backend Engineer (Platform Operations) Engineering Dresden, Germany

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Key Responsibilities • Design and build backend services for ingesting, processing, and distributing data fromdistributed sensor nodes • Build and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows • Establish and operate development, staging, and production environments • Design systems that degrade gracefully and recover from partial failures • Operate and improve databases, messaging systems, and other stateful infrastructure • Build metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting for the platform • Automate infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and cloud-native tooling • Define backend architecture and drive engineering practices, mentoring engineers as the teamgrows Required Qualifications • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline,or equivalent practical experience • 7+ years of professional experience building and operating backend or distributed systems • Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, Linux, and production failure modes • Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Go, Rust, C++, or Python • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, Docker, Kubernetes, or comparable container orchestration platforms • Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and production deployment workflows • Operational experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, including performance tuning,migrations, backups, and recovery • Experience with real-time or high-throughput data processing using messaging or streaming systemssuch as Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, or similar Nice to Have • Experience operating production systems across multiple cloud providers, on-premises, and edgeenvironments • Experience with distributed edge or sensor systems • Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry • Experience designing or operating authentication and authorization systems • Experience with geospatial or time-series data • Knowledge of database replication, high availability, and disaster recovery • German language skills are beneficial but not required What We Offer • High autonomy and influence on architecture, infrastructure, and tooling • Direct collaboration with radar, signal processing, and product teams • Links to relevant projects, publications, or GitHub profile (optional) Xneural develops next-generation airspace surveillance systems thatprotect civil and critical infrastructure, based on distributed radar sensorsand cloud-based AI perception.

Our mission is to make the lower airspacevisible through Drone Detection as a Service deployed on existingtelecommunications infrastructure. We are building a highly scalable radar perception platform capable ofdetecting, tracking, and classifying airborne objects in complexreal-world environments.

Role Overview We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with a strong operations focus to build and operate the backend of our distributed radar platform.

You will work across distributed systems, cloudinfrastructure, deployment automation, databases, messaging systems, and observability, with a strong emphasis on reliability and sound engineering practices.