Birdbuddy builds products that connect people with nature through smart hardware, computer vision, and beautifully designed software. Our ecosystem spans IoT devices, cloud infrastructure, machine learning pipelines, and consumer-facing mobile apps used by hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.

We’re looking for a Senior Infrastructure & Backend Engineer who loves making systems reliable, secure, and cost-efficient, while also building and maintaining backend services on AWS.

This role is split roughly 50/50 between AWS infrastructure ownership and backend engineering. You’ll be a key owner of Birdbuddy’s cloud platform and will partner closely with product and engineering teams to improve system reliability, scalability, and development velocity.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and improve our AWS infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, monitoring, CI/CD support).
• Improve reliability: alerting, observability, incident response, runbooks, and postmortems.
• Drive cloud security best practices: IAM hygiene, secrets management, least privilege, audits.
• Lead AWS cost optimization: right-sizing, lifecycle policies, reserved capacity strategy, ongoing spend reviews.
• Support production operations and build tooling that reduces operational load for the team.
• Build and maintain backend services running on AWS.
• Improve scalability and performance of APIs and data flows.

Key Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS in production environments.
• Backend engineering experience (e.g., building APIs/services, designing scalable components).
• Familiarity with monitoring/observability tools and incident management practices.
• Track record of delivering pragmatic cost optimizations without sacrificing reliability.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally and owning systems end-to-end.
• Familiarity / Experience with Infrastructure as a Code (Terraform) and Kubernetes.

Join us

• Work on a project that can truly change how millions of people perceive nature and help them make a lasting impact on global biodiversity for generations to come.
• Engage with a passionate, dynamic, and talented team.
• Be part of the fast-paced, innovative environment of a rapidly growing startup, with abundant opportunities for personal and professional growth.
• Work three half-days in the office with the flexibility to manage the rest of your schedule.
• Enjoy competitive stock options, at least 25 days of paid leave, and an open-ended contract with a trial period.
• Receive your own Bird Buddy Feeder and Bird Buddy Premium Family subscription.

If this describes you, we invite you to submit your application to help us learn more about you and your potential contributions to our mission to connect people with nature through technology.

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