# Senior Backend Engineer

> Weekday AI · India (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-05-20

**Salary:** INR 4,000,000–8,000,000

**Workplace:** remote

**Department:** Weekday's Client via platform

## Description

**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.

## Requirements

### Key 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.

### Required Qualifications

-   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.

### Good to Have 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.

### Preferred Skills

-   Backend Development
-   Golang
-   JavaScript
-   Distributed Systems
-   Kubernetes
-   Docker
-   Platform Engineering
-   API Development

## Apply

[Apply at Weekday AI](https://apply.workable.com/weekday-1/j/C322D1CD41/apply)

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