Staff Engineer - Backend / DevOps / Platform Engineering

Staff Engineer - Backend / DevOps / Platform Engineering Location: Austin, Texas (Onsite) Role Overview We are seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the architecture, reliability, and operational excellence of our backend systems and platform services. This role is central to defining technical direction, ensuring system scalability, and mentoring engineers. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in backend engineering, DevOps, and operating large-scale production systems. Key Responsibilities Define and lead the architecture for scalable backend systems and platform services. Design and evolve distributed systems and microservices architectures. Own the end-to-end reliability of production systems, including availability, performance, and scalability. Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements. Establish best practices for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and release engineering. Drive DevOps transformation through automation and deployment reliability. Define and implement observability standards across systems, including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting. Mentor engineers and elevate technical standards across the organization. Required Qualifications Experience: 8+ years of experience in backend engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps. Proven experience designing, owning, and operating distributed systems at scale. Technical Skills: Strong backend engineering expertise in Java or Python. Deep hands-on experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines. Solid cloud platform experience (Azure preferred) and familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack. Company Overview This organization is a leader in the technology industry. We are focused on building robust and scalable platforms that power our services. Our engineering culture values operational excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement. Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click here for more details. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Everforth Apex and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy at Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide. Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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