What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior / Staff Backend Engineer – Distributed Systems & Network Automation position at Netris?
Netris is a leading Network Automation, Abstraction, and Multi-Tenancy (NAAM) platform powering next-generation AI infrastructure operators worldwide. Neoclouds, GPU cloud providers, Telcos, Sovereign AI, and AI Factory operators use Netris to orchestrate and automate networking for GPU clusters ranging from thousands to over 100,000 GPUs.
In close collaboration with NVIDIA and other leading infrastructure companies, Netris enables
cloud-provider-grade automation, multi-tenancy, and large-scale AI network operations for modern AI datacenter environments.
This is an opportunity to join a highly technical engineering team solving complex distributed systems, networking, and infrastructure automation challenges with direct impact on large-scale AI infrastructure deployments worldwide.
The Role
We are looking for a senior backend engineer to help design, own, and build the distributed control-plane services behind the Netris platform.
This role requires strong backend engineering fundamentals, hands-on distributed systems experience, and the ability to translate high-level infrastructure requirements into scalable, production-grade system designs and implementations.
Engineers in this role are expected to take ownership across architecture, implementation, reliability, observability, and long-term system evolution within a fast-moving infrastructure startup environment.
What You’ll Do
- Own the design and implementation of scalable backend services powering network automation workflows
- Drive architectural decisions across APIs, internal services, and distributed control-plane components
- Build REST APIs using Node.js and gRPC services using Golang
- Design resilient distributed systems for high-scale infrastructure environments
- Improve system scalability, observability, resiliency, and operational reliability
- Collaborate closely with infrastructure, networking, and product teams
- Drive engineering best practices around reliability, testing, and CI/CD
What We’re Looking For
- 5 years of backend engineering experience
- Strong experience with Node.js and Golang
- Hands-on experience building distributed systems
- Experience with MariaDB/MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, gRPC, Linux, and containers
- Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, observability, and operational excellence
- Ability to translate high-level requirements into technical designs and production-ready implementations
Nice to Have
- Experience in infrastructure, networking, or cloud companies
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and event-driven systems
- Experience building multi-tenant SaaS platforms
- Experience with AI infrastructure environments
Why Join Netris
- Build systems operating at massive scale
- Join a small, senior engineering organization
- Influence architecture and product direction
- Work on infrastructure powering next-generation AI environments