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Atomic Semi

Infrastructure Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$125K - $195K/yr

About the role As an Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineer, you will design, build, deploy ... This is a broad, hands-on role where you will own all aspects of our backend services from the ...

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How much do backend infrastructure engineer jobs pay per year?

As of Jul 11, 2026, the average yearly pay for backend infrastructure engineer in the United States is $147,662.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $124,000.00 and $172,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are some common challenges faced by Backend Infrastructure Engineers in scaling systems to support rapid user growth?

Backend Infrastructure Engineers often encounter challenges in ensuring systems can scale efficiently as user demand increases. This includes addressing bottlenecks in databases, optimizing server performance, implementing effective load balancing, and maintaining high availability. Collaboration with frontend engineers, DevOps, and product teams is crucial to proactively identify scaling issues and to deploy solutions that minimize downtime. Staying updated with evolving infrastructure technologies also helps engineers anticipate and mitigate scaling-related challenges.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Backend Infrastructure Engineer, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Backend Infrastructure Engineer, you need a deep understanding of server-side languages, distributed systems, network protocols, and a relevant degree in computer science or engineering. Familiarity with cloud platforms (such as AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines is typically required. Strong problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and effective communication help engineers collaborate and respond to complex technical challenges. These skills and qualities are essential for building, maintaining, and scaling reliable backend systems that support business operations.

What is the difference between Backend Infrastructure Engineer vs Backend Developer?

AspectBackend Infrastructure EngineerBackend Developer
Primary FocusDesigning, building, and maintaining the infrastructure that supports backend systems, including servers, databases, and cloud services.Developing and maintaining the application logic, APIs, and server-side code for web applications.
Required SkillsCloud platforms, server management, networking, scripting, infrastructure automationProgramming languages (e.g., Java, Python), API development, database management
Work EnvironmentSystems and infrastructure teams, cloud environments, DevOps pipelinesApplication development teams, software engineering environments

While both roles work on backend systems, the Backend Infrastructure Engineer focuses on the underlying infrastructure and deployment environment, whereas the Backend Developer concentrates on coding and application logic. Both roles are essential for robust backend systems but serve different aspects of the development lifecycle.

What does a Backend Infrastructure Engineer do?

A Backend Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the foundational systems and services that support software applications. They focus on scalability, reliability, security, and performance of backend systems, such as databases, servers, APIs, and cloud platforms. Their work ensures that applications can handle large amounts of data and traffic efficiently, and they often collaborate with other engineers to deploy and monitor these services. Additionally, they may automate infrastructure processes and implement best practices for system architecture and monitoring.
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Infographic showing various Backend Infrastructure Engineer job openings in the United States as of July 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 91% Full Time, 3% Part Time, and 5% Contract. Highlights an 78% Physical, 3% Hybrid, and 19% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $147,662 per year, or $71 per hour.
Engineering Manager, CloudOps Infrastructure

Engineering Manager, CloudOps Infrastructure

JamLoop

Charleston, WV • Remote

$160K - $190K/yr

Full-time

This job post has expired today. Applications are no longer accepted.

Job description

About Jamloop

Jamloop is building high-scale advertising technology that processes massive volumes of real-time traffic. Our backend systems support high-throughput, low-latency bidding infrastructure for a demand-side platform, where reliability, performance, cost efficiency, and operational excellence are critical.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our cloudops infrastructure and operations team, with a focus on cloud infrastructure, production systems, and high-volume bidder software.

About the Role

As Engineering Manager for Backend Infrastructure & Operations, you will manage a scrum team of 4 to 6 software and DevOps engineers responsible for building, operating, and improving Jamloop’s high-volume, low-latency bidder systems.

This is a hands-on management role for someone who has grown from a strong cloud operations, backend, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering background and is ready to lead a team while staying close to technical execution. The ideal candidate has experience operating production cloud systems at scale, understands how to balance reliability and cost, and can help engineers prioritize work across infrastructure, performance, incident response, and feature delivery.

You will oversee cloud infrastructure that processes over 1 billion HTTP requests per hour and represents millions of dollars in annual cloud spend. A major part of this role will be identifying opportunities to improve performance, increase reliability, and reduce infrastructure costs without compromising system quality or delivery speed.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a strong cloud operations or backend infrastructure engineer who has started leading teams and is ready to grow further as an engineering manager. They do not need to be a senior manager, but they should be comfortable managing a small team, owning delivery, handling production operational needs, and making thoughtful technical decisions in a high-scale environment.

They should enjoy both people leadership and technical problem-solving. They should be motivated by building reliable systems, improving operational processes, reducing cloud costs, and helping engineers do their best work.

Responsibilities - Team Leadership
  • Manage and support a scrum team of 4 to 6 software and DevOps engineers, while actively contributing to the code base.
  • Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, execution tracking, retrospectives, and delivery commitments.
  • Coach engineers through technical decision-making, operational ownership, prioritization, and professional growth.
  • Help create a team culture focused on accountability, reliability, continuous improvement, and pragmatic execution.
  • Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to align infrastructure and bidder team priorities with company goals.
Cloud Infrastructure & Operations
  • Oversee AWS-based cloud infrastructure supporting high-volume, low-latency bidder systems.
  • Manage cloud environments that process over 1 billion HTTP requests per hour.
  • Help operate and optimize millions of dollars of cloud infrastructure spend.
  • Identify opportunities to reduce cost, improve system utilization, and increase performance.
  • Drive improvements in observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, deployment safety, and operational readiness.
  • Ensure systems are designed and operated for scalability, reliability, availability, and maintainability.
Backend & Bidder Systems
  • Lead engineering work on high-volume bidder software for a demand-side platform.
  • Support backend systems where latency, throughput, uptime, and cost efficiency are business-critical.
  • Help the team make sound technical tradeoffs across performance, reliability, complexity, and delivery speed.
  • Collaborate with engineers on architecture, system design, code quality, deployment practices, and production operations.
  • Ensure the team maintains strong ownership of production services from design through deployment and ongoing operation.
Production Support & Incident Management
  • Participate in production support processes and help ensure appropriate team coverage.
  • Be available outside standard business hours as needed to support critical deployments, production incidents, time-sensitive operational events, and team response coverage.
  • Lead or support incident reviews, root cause analysis, follow-up planning, and long-term reliability improvements.
  • Build processes that reduce operational toil and improve team response effectiveness over time.
Required Qualifications
  • 6+ years of professional experience in backend software engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, site reliability engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • 1+ year of experience leading engineers, managing projects, acting as a technical lead, or serving in an engineering management role.
  • Strong experience operating production systems on AWS.
  • Experience with high-scale, high-availability distributed systems.
  • Practical understanding of cloud networking, HTTP services, load balancing, service scaling, monitoring, deployment pipelines, and incident response.
  • Experience supporting systems where latency, throughput, reliability, and cost are important operational concerns.
  • Ability to manage technical priorities across infrastructure, operations, performance, and product delivery.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and business teams.
  • Comfortable staying close to technical details while also managing people, planning, execution, and delivery.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with ad tech, real-time bidding, DSPs, bidder systems, auction systems, or other high-throughput transactional platforms.
  • Experience with Golang, Rust, or other high-performance software languages
  • Experience managing or optimizing significant cloud infrastructure spend.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform), containerized workloads, CI/CD systems, observability platforms, and incident management workflows.
  • Experience improving system performance, reducing latency, or lowering cloud costs at scale.
  • Familiarity with scrum or agile engineering practices.
  • Prior experience moving from a senior engineer, DevOps engineer, SRE, or technical lead role into engineering management.
The compensation for this position will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Our comprehensive benefits include healthcare, company contributions to your HSA, a great 401k, and much (much) more.
Like a great performance, this role hits a lot of notes: the responsibilities listed above, staying in tune with Jamloop policies, exercising sound judgment, collaborating effectively and inclusively, and safeguarding both our business operations and our brand integrity. We’re looking for someone who can keep the rhythm steady while improvising when the moment calls for it.
 
At Jamloop, we know the best tracks are made when people feel free to create wherever they’re most comfortable. That’s why we offer fully remote work options that our team loves! While you won’t be required to come into an office, you may occasionally be asked to join in-person jam sessions (a.k.a. events or team gatherings). Don’t worry, you'll have plenty of notice to set your schedule.
 
Jamloop is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on, age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other protected category. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Most importantly, we’re dedicated to providing an accessible and inclusive stage for all candidates during the hiring process, and for every employee throughout their Jamloop career.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.