Staff Engineer- Backend/DevOps/Platform Engineering

Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fueling ours. Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing. As a trusted partner for purpose-built AI and intelligent automation, we solve highly complex problems for our enterprise customers and put their information to work to transform the way they do business. Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones. You will work on further developing a portfolio already containing client names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK. About the Role As a Staff Engineer – Backend / DevOps / Platform Engineering at ABBYY, you will lead the architecture and reliability of large-scale backend and platform systems that support mission-critical workloads. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on production excellence, DevOps maturity, and scalable distributed systems design. You will drive engineering standards across teams, ensuring systems are reliable, observable, and efficient at scale. Key Responsibilities Architecture & System Design Define and lead architecture for scalable backend systems and platform services Design and evolve distributed systems and microservices architectures Influence technical decisions across teams to ensure consistent, scalable design patterns Production Reliability & Operations Own end-to-end reliability of production systems, including availability, performance, and scalability Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements Drive proactive identification and resolution of system bottlenecks DevOps & Platform Excellence Establish best practices for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and release engineering Drive DevOps transformation through automation, environment standardization, and deployment reliability Partner with teams to improve operational maturity and platform adoption Observability & Performance Define and implement observability standards across systems (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting) Optimize systems for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency Ensure strong monitoring and alerting coverage for critical services Leadership & Enablement Build and promote engineering best practices, documentation, and internal knowledge sharing Mentor engineers and elevate technical standards across the organization Influence engineering culture toward operational excellence and accountability Qualifications Required 8+ years of experience in backend engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps Strong backend engineering expertise in Java or Python, with deep system design experience Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale Deep hands-on experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines Experience owning and operating large-scale production systems Strong expertise in debugging complex production issues and driving resolution Solid cloud platform experience (Azure preferred) Experience with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence technical direction Preferred Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration Familiarity with streaming systems (e.g., Kafka) Experience designing high-availability, fault-tolerant systems Exposure to security, compliance, and platform governance practices Familiarity with data platforms, data lakes, or document management systems (DMS) Here are some of our local benefits: Comprehensive medical, accidental, and life insurance Weekly wellness sessions to support your physical and mental well-being A generous paid time off policy Join ABBYY, and you will: Love how you work We provide remote and hybrid working options to fit all lifestyles. We use flexible hours across most of our teams to allow you to find your own definition of balance. Encouraging a culture of giving, we provide two paid volunteering days off every year so you can take time to contribute to the causes you care about. To ensure your family is cared for, we offer paid parental leave in all our locations. Love whom you work with We are a global team of 600+ colleagues, spread across 15 countries on four continents. With colleagues representing 30+ nationalities, our workforce reflects the world. Innovation and excellence run through our veins. Our teams gather the expertise which has garnered ABBYY more than 140 technology patents. We are guided by the values of respect, transparency, and simplicity. "Team Environment" is in the top three highest-scoring drivers of engagement across all of our departments. Love what you work on We are a company with more than 35 years of experience in the technology market; Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones, with names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK; We have modernized the capture market by creating the first low-code/no-code IDP platform. Our Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision Technologies, and a marketplace built with AI, can transform any document in any process; Top Analyst firms recognize ABBYY's market leadership, including Gartner, Everest PEAK Matrix ® Assessment, ISG Intelligent Automation Lens, and NelsonHall, amongst others. ABBYY is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, check out the careers section on our website.