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Sr Backend Engineer, Public Sector

Lazarus AI

$140,000 - $150,000
Sep 19, 2025
Remote, US
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At Lazarus, we build foundation models to help people solve the world's toughest problems. Enterprise and government clients use our APIs to power products and workflows that keep humans focused on what we do best.

Requirements

  • 3-5 years of experience in creating, deploying and managing open-source spatial data infrastructure such as tileserver-gl, mapproxy, geoserver and PostgreSQL
  • 5+ years of experience creating custom SQL functions for PostgreSQL using PL/pgSQL or PL/Python
  • 5+ years of experience building automated data pipelines using container orchestration platforms
  • 5+ years of experience using spatial data processing libraries such as GDAL and CGAL or wrappers for them in Python, Java or Go
  • 3+ years of experience generating and deploying Mapbox or Maplibre Vector Tiles (MVT) using tools such as tippecanoe, pg_tileserv, martin, t-rex, tegola or PostGIS
  • 5+ years of experience and deep domain knowledge of OpenStreetMap data schema and processing using tools such as imposm3, osm2pgsql, osmosis or osmium
  • 5+ years of experience creating containerized backend services for OGC compliant spatial APIs such as WMTS, TileJSON, OGC Tiles and TMS

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable and maintainable backend systems using a variety of programming languages
  • Participate in architecture design reviews and development of projects
  • Optimize database performance and implement data security measures
  • Write clean, maintainable code that follows best practices and adheres to coding standards
  • Troubleshoot and debug issues as they arise
  • Write unit tests and participate in code reviews to ensure the quality and reliability of our products

Other

  • Act as a mentor to junior engineers on the team
  • Think ahead and draft up milestone goals for deliverables
  • This role requires eligibility for U.S. security clearance based on current or future interactions with domestic and foreign governments.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS or GCP