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Senior Backend Engineer (Platform Operations)

  • Department:Engineering
  • Employment Type:Full time
  • Location:Dresden, Germany

About Xneural

Xneural develops next-generation airspace surveillance systems that protect civil and critical infrastructure, based on distributed radar sensors and cloud-based AI perception. Our mission is to make the lower airspace visible through Drone Detection as a Service deployed on existing telecommunications infrastructure.

We are building a highly scalable radar perception platform capable of detecting, tracking, and classifying airborne objects in complex real-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, cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, databases, messaging systems, and observability, with a strong emphasis on reliability and sound engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and build backend services for ingesting, processing, and distributing data from distributed 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 team grows

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 systems such as Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, or similar

Nice to Have

  • Experience operating production systems across multiple cloud providers, on-premises, and edge environments
  • 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

  • Competitive compensation package including VSOP participation
  • High autonomy and influence on architecture, infrastructure, and tooling
  • Direct collaboration with radar, signal processing, and product teams
  • Short decision paths
  • Flexible hybrid working model
  • Office location in Dresden, Germany

How to Apply

Please send your application to jobs@xneural.ai and include:

  • Curriculum Vitae (CV)
  • Short motivation (max. one page)
  • Links to relevant projects, publications, or GitHub profile (optional)

Xneural is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic or social origin, religion, disability, age, or sexual identity. You do not need to meet every point above to apply.