Backend Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Higgsfield4 days ago
Almaty, KazakhstanSenior
Responsibilities
- Build shared infrastructure services for queues, job scheduling, caching, configuration, and service communication.
- Improve concurrency limits, resource allocation, and recovery for long-running media workloads.
- Make database access, migrations, and connection management safer and faster.
- Simplify service setup, testing, deployment, and production debugging.
- Improve observability, investigate incidents, and reduce infrastructure cost per completed job.
- Partner with product engineers to ship focused improvements, measure results, and support infrastructure in production.
Requirements
- Experience running production systems on Kubernetes and AWS, including deployments, scaling, networking, and troubleshooting.
- Strong software engineering skills building shared services, tools, and automation for other engineers.
- Experience with databases, queues, and distributed systems, including performance debugging, safe rollouts, and recovery.
- Demonstrated ownership of a difficult production problem from an unclear starting point to a working solution.
- Ability to set priorities, make practical tradeoffs, remove blockers, and ask for help when needed.
- Clear communication, openness to feedback, and knowledge sharing.
- Nice-to-have experience with Cloudflare, infrastructure as code, PostgreSQL, Redis, event-streaming systems, or high-throughput media pipelines and AI workload orchestration.
Benefits
- Competitive base pay in USD and equity.
- Relocation support.
- Ownership of infrastructure used across engineering teams.
- Location: Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Tech Stack
About Higgsfield
Higgsfield builds generative AI tools for video and image creation used by creators, brands, and social media teams to produce content at scale. The company offers a studio-style app and AI-powered workflows for generation, editing, and marketing automation. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held.