Senior Backstage Developer

Senior Backstage Developer

About the Role

A leading technology organization is seeking an experienced Senior Backstage Developer to play a pivotal role in building, customizing, and scaling Backstage (Spotifys open-source Internal Developer Portal) for enterprise teams.

This position focuses on centralizing software cataloging, improving developer experience, and enhancing workflow automation in large-scale technical environments. The role demands both strong engineering skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with platform, infrastructure, and security teams.

A keen eye for detail and clear communication are essential to delivering impactful outcomes across the organization.

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Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Automation: Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code to provision and manage cloud resources across multiple environments.
• Backstage Development: Design, build, and extend Backstage plugins, integrations, and platform features for enterprise-scale adoption.
• Enterprise Integration: Architect solutions and integrate Backstage with existing systems (CI/CD, observability, identity, cloud, and documentation platforms).
• Developer Experience Enablement: Promote workflow automation, documentation, and self-service capabilities within Backstage to boost productivity.
• Customization and Security: Customize permissions, implement security and compliance requirements, and scale Backstage across multiple teams and regions.
• Observability and Monitoring: Integrate Backstage with monitoring and analytics tools to enhance visibility into software and team performance.
• Collaboration: Work with engineering, SRE, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver enterprise-ready developer portal solutions.
• Documentation: Create clear onboarding guides, plugin usage instructions, and technical documentation for both technical and non-technical audiences.

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About You

Experience

• 5+ years as a software/platform engineer in enterprise environments.
• Proven experience developing, customizing, and maintaining Backstage in production.
• Previous work integrating Backstage with CI/CD, cloud, monitoring, and identity tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS, Datadog).
• Technical Skills
• Deep proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and React (Backstage tech stack).
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js for plugin development and production use.
• Familiarity with Express.js (nice to have).
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi).
• Solid understanding of microservices, containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).

Mindset

• Exceptional attention to detail and passion for building reliable, user-friendly platforms.
• Proactive ownership of complex problems, with a bias toward automation.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, distributed, and collaborative environments.
• Strong communication skills, able to explain technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences.

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Nice to Have

• Prior participation or contributions to the Backstage open-source community.
• Experience implementing security or compliance controls in developer platforms.
• Background supporting multi-region or multi-cloud deployments.