This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs (SRE Focus) based in India.
This is a senior engineering role focused on building and operating highly reliable backend systems at significant scale.
You’ll develop core APIs and real-time data services where performance, availability, latency, and cost are critical design considerations.
The role combines hands-on backend engineering with strong Site Reliability Engineering ownership in production.
You’ll define and monitor service objectives, improve observability, automate operational work, and help the platform scale safely as demand grows.
You’ll take ownership of systems throughout their lifecycle, from technical design and implementation through deployment, incident response, and continuous optimization.
Working within a fully remote, globally distributed team, you’ll collaborate asynchronously while contributing to engineering standards and mentoring other developers.




This is an prospect to solve complex distributed-systems challenges while helping build technology that protects businesses and users from online fraud.
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Accountabilities
Design, develop, and optimize highly performant backend services for real-time data processing and web APIs, balancing reliability, latency, scalability, and infrastructure cost.
Define and own SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for core API services, using reliability data to guide engineering and delivery decisions.
Build and maintain effective observability through meaningful metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, and actionable alerts.
Participate in an equitable on-call rotation, respond effectively to production incidents, mitigate customer impact, and lead blameless post-incident reviews.
Automate repetitive operational processes and follow through on incident action items to reduce operational toil and prevent recurring failures.
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📌 Senior Backend Engineer, Core APIs (India)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 India