[Remote] Backend Data Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ruya AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company building AI-native intelligent software for sovereign institutions and their affiliated organizations. They are seeking a Backend Data Engineer to build and maintain backend services, data pipelines, and infrastructure that support their multi-modal intelligence agent and ensure reliability and scalability in production.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain services using Python/FastAPI/TypeScript/Express
- Build secure REST APIs, SSE streams, and WebSocket-based features
- Own PostgreSQL schemas, migrations, transactions, and query performance
- Support OIDC/JWT authentication and resource-scoped RBAC
- Integrate external data providers and handle authentication, pagination, rate limits, schema variance, and failure states
- Define stable, documented contracts for frontend and AI consumers
- Build unit, contract, and database-backed integration tests
- Instrument services with structured logging and diagnose production failures across APIs, databases, authentication, and external dependencies using tools such as Sentry, Langfuse, or alternatives
- Collaborate with frontend and AI engineers throughout feature development and release
Skills
- Strong production experience with Python/FastAPI/TypeScript/Express
- Strong PostgreSQL knowledge, including schema design, migrations, transactions, and performance analysis
- Experience with OAuth/OIDC, JWT validation, and authorization
- Understanding of concurrency, idempotency, retries, timeouts, and distributed failure modes
- Experience designing and testing stable service contracts
- A security-conscious approach to input validation, credentials, sensitive data, and logging
- Experience using logs, traces, and error monitoring to diagnose production issues
- Clear communication and effective collaboration across engineering disciplines
- Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, or advanced asyncio
- Snowflake, ClickHouse, or another analytical data platform
- External API and data-provider integrations
- Geospatial data, entity resolution
- Graph-oriented data modeling
- PostgreSQL-backed graph persistence or NetworkX
- Containerized and distributed service environments
- GCP or AWS
- Durable background jobs or workflow systems such as Temporal
- Equivalent experience with comparable frameworks and infrastructure is welcome
Benefits
- Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Relocation assistance
- Paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs) and based on location
- A supportive leave-of-absence program, including time off for military service and medical events
- Most teams offer one or two remote days a week
- A small number of roles are remote-eligible on an exception basis; employees in those roles must be based in the state where they're employed
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