Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer As a Backend Engineer at Techstars , you will be the connective tissue between our data infrastructure and the product teams building Techstars OS — the operating system that drives how we run accelerators, support founders, and make investment decisions. You will own our data pipelines, keep our cloud infrastructure stable and secure, and work across teams to ship reliable, observable systems. This role blends backend data engineering with platform/infrastructure work; the right person is equally comfortable building an ELT pipeline as they are debugging a Kubernetes deployment What you will do Design, build, and maintain data pipelines that ingest, transform, and serve data across Techstars systems — including Salesforce, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and internal APIs Own and evolve our Kubernetes-based infrastructure (Helm, OpenTofu, Github Actions), including deployment tooling, secrets management, and cluster health Partner with our senior security engineer on infrastructure reliability — incident response, observability, and proactive improvements to keep things stable Maintain and improve our PostgreSQL database layer: schema design, migrations, query performance, and data integrity Support Salesforce data flows and integrations with our broader platform Build and maintain internal tooling and integrations that connect third-party SaaS tools to Techstars OS Contribute to engineering standards: CI/CD practices, testing, code review, documentation Work in an agile