ALSO
Staff Cloud Backend Developer
Palo Alto · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$170k-$210kDetected 7 days ago
RedisDynamoDBAWSCloud PlatformsAPI DevelopmentGraphQLRESTgRPCKafkaOAuthTest AutomationCollaboration
About the role
- You balance speed and rigor, know how to scale systems, and thrive in fast paced 0→1 environments.
- The salary for this position ranges from $170,000 - $210,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications.
- We're passionate about helping the world find a better way to get there-wherever it is you're headed.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the architecture and implementation of backend systems to support secure, scalable IoT infrastructure and its fleet management
- Drive improvements to core cloud infrastructure: API design, database schema, service interactions, event handling, observability, and deployment workflows.
- Build data and API integrations with external services and partner platforms.
- Design and implement systems for high availability and geographic redundancy, ensuring reliability across global deployments.
- Proven ability to design, ship, and operate production systems from scratch.
- Mastery of API design (REST/GraphQL), schema design, and data exchange (gRPC/JSON-RPC).
- Together we're working hands-on to imagine, design and build an entirely new solution to a global set of transportation challenges.
- We're a passionate team of builders, dreamers, doers and innovators, focused on creating entirely new (not to mention, innovative and delightful) vertically integrated, small EVs designed to meet the global mobility challenges of today and tomorrow.
Requirements
- Strong experience with AWS (e.g. Lambda, ECR/ECS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM).
- Experience with authentication/authorization protocols (OAuth2, OID, JWT, SAML, mTLS).
Skills
- Contribute to shared services for API gateway, caches, schema upgrades
- Strengthen security and privacy across the platform, including user authentication
- Ensure production readiness with automated testing, performance monitoring, and deployment safety.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to technical decision-making, hiring processes, and engineering best practices.
Compensation
- The salary for this position ranges from $170,000 - $210,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications.
Benefits
- Robust health coverage - excellent health, dental, and vision insurance covered up to 100% by ALSO, with FSA & HSA options
- One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates
- Rich fertility and family-building benefits with Progyny
- Flexible time off
- Drive and define a team culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Perks & Benefits
Company info
- We're ALSO, an electric mobility company originally conceived as a part of Rivian.
- Our mission is to inspire everyone to ride ALSO-replacing many local car, truck and SUV miles with ones on vehicles that are more affordable, more enjoyable and 10-50x more efficient.
This listing is sourced directly from ALSO's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.