Design, build, and scale a secure execution platform and backend services for scheduling, monitoring, sandboxed code execution, resource management, observability, and integrations with data/ML workflows. Ensure reliability, scalability, and security, collaborate with product and platform teams, and mentor junior engineers.
This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
Salary range: Rs 4000000 - Rs 8000000 (ie INR 40-80 LPA)
Min Experience: 4+ years
Location: Remote (India)
JobType: full-time
We are building an advanced execution platform that enables teams to securely author, run, and share internal and external code within a scalable enterprise environment. This platform plays a critical role in empowering data-driven workflows, automation, and intelligent decision-making across large-scale systems.
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Backend Engineer to design and develop a secure, scalable, and developer-friendly execution engine. This role involves solving complex engineering challenges related to sandboxing, distributed systems, resource management, observability, and platform scalability.
This is a high-impact opportunity for engineers passionate about backend infrastructure, platform engineering, and developer productivity.
RequirementsKey Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and scale a secure execution platform for running internal and external code workloads.
- Build backend services and APIs to manage execution workflows including scheduling, monitoring, cancellation, logging, and reporting.
- Architect isolated and sandboxed environments with strong security controls and resource quota management.
- Ensure high system reliability, resilience, and horizontal scalability under growing workloads.
- Integrate execution services with data platforms, analytics systems, and ML workflows.
- Collaborate with product managers, platform teams, and engineers to deliver intuitive developer experiences.
- Drive engineering best practices around observability, performance optimization, scalability, and execution safety.
- Contribute to technical architecture discussions and mentor junior engineers where needed.
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, preferably in distributed systems, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
- Strong expertise in at least one backend language such as Python, Go, Java, or similar.
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and/or gRPC services.
- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of secure code execution, sandboxing, and resource isolation techniques.
- Experience with distributed job queues and orchestration systems such as Celery, Airflow, Kubernetes Jobs, or similar tools.
- Proven ability to build scalable, observable, and fault-tolerant systems.
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, and collaboration skills.
- Experience building notebook-style execution platforms or developer tooling environments.
- Exposure to data engineering or machine learning platforms and execution workflows.
- Experience working with multi-tenant architectures and shared infrastructure security.
- Familiarity with backend technologies including Golang and JavaScript.
- Backend Development
- Golang
- JavaScript
- Distributed Systems
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Platform Engineering
- API Development
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