# Senior Backend & Infrastructure Engineer at Scispot

- Company: Scispot (YC S21)
- What the company does: The Best Data Infrastructure for Biotechs. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://scispot.io
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: US / ES / DE / GB / PL / IN / CA / Remote (US; ES; DE; GB; PL; IN; CA)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $100K to $175K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-23
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/scispot-io/jobs/QX1c0xf-senior-backend-infrastructure-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/scispot-senior-backend-and-infrastructure-engineer/

## About the role

We are looking for a senior backend and infrastructure engineer who treats production as a product. You will own the systems beneath Scispot: backend services, messaging, databases, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, security, and reliability.

## What they're looking for

- Roughly 3+ years of experience building and operating backend, platform, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure systems. Strong evidence matters more than a precise year count
- Strong production backend experience with Python and FastAPI, Java and Spring Boot, or a comparable stack
- A solid grasp of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, failure modes, retries, idempotency, and message-driven architecture
- Hands-on experience with AWS and Azure. You have made practical decisions about networking, compute, storage, identity, security, and cost
- Solid understanding of AI pipelines, prompt looping, langfuse tracing, and context engineering
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes. Production EKS experience is especially useful

Tags: Engineering