Remote | Senior Backend Engineer — $50–$100/hour
About The Position
We are sharing a specialised consulting opportunity for experienced Senior Backend Engineers with strong expertise in backend development, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, networking, IAM, observability, and production-grade systems engineering to contribute to an advanced AI training and reinforcement-learning environment project. Selected professionals will create realistic reinforcement-learning environments that test advanced AI systems on production infrastructure challenges involving system design, deployment, troubleshooting, security, scalability, and recovery. No prior experience in AI is required.
Requirements
- Strong professional backend-engineering experience
- Expertise in one or more of C++, Python, Rust, Go, Java, or JavaScript
- Strong practical experience with DevOps and cloud infrastructure
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation
- Demonstrated ability to architect, scale, and secure distributed systems
- Deep understanding of networking and Identity and Access Management
- Experience with message queues, durable storage, observability, and production diagnostics
- Strong knowledge of rolling deployments, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery
- Experience troubleshooting production-grade systems
- Ability to design deterministic tests and reproducible technical environments
- Strong technical documentation and communication skills
Nice To Haves
- No prior AI-training or model-evaluation experience is required
Responsibilities
- Design realistic technical environments involving backend services, distributed systems, networking, queues, and durable storage
- Create production-style scenarios covering deployment, scaling, troubleshooting, and recovery
- Evaluate architecture for reliability, scalability, resilience, and operational correctness
- Incorporate realistic failure modes and infrastructure constraints
- Apply strong systems-design judgement across cloud environments
- Develop scenarios involving IAM, authentication, authorisation, permissions, and access control
- Work with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, rolling deployments, and operational workflows
- Incorporate observability, monitoring, and diagnostic requirements
- Design fault-tolerance and disaster-recovery scenarios
- Identify common production configuration, networking, and security failures
- Build reproducible environments with deterministic validation
- Create golden reference solutions and objective acceptance criteria
- Develop defective variants that test troubleshooting and recovery skills
- Validate expected behaviour, failure conditions, and edge cases
- Document architecture, assumptions, operational flows, and technical trade-offs clearly
Benefits
- Independent contractor engagement
- Fully remote
- Output-based compensation per task
- Minimum weekly submission requirements apply
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
