Back End Data Infrastructure Engineer
Berkeley, CAFull-timePosted 2 days agoStill listed today
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Job overview
Terranova is seeking a full-stack engineer to build and maintain scalable applications while owning its cloud and infrastructure layer. The role includes developing user interfaces and backend APIs, operating distributed backends, and architecting deployments. The engineer will collaborate with product and robotics teams on data, telemetry, and control interfaces. The posting calls for a bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or a related field and U.S. permanent residency.
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Full job description
Company Description Backed by leading climate and American dynamism investors, Terranova builds intelligent robotic systems to terraform the Earth itself - lifting land, restoring wetlands, and protecting critical infrastructure from floods and sea-level rise. Our mission is to preserve the built environment, create new habitats, and usher in an era of abundance. Our work supports climate resilience, disaster recovery, and defense across the United States and beyond. We’re assembling a world-class team that wants to work on something real, physical, and civilization-scale. If you want your work to reshape the world (literally), this is the place to do it.
What to to Expect We are looking for a full-stack engineer who can design and maintain modern, scalable applications while owning our cloud and infrastructure layer. You’ll build responsive user interfaces, develop backend APIs, and architect deployments that can scale globally. OAuth/OIDC. You’ll thrive if you’ve worked on platform or infra teams (Vercel, Cloudflare, AWS) or as a product engineer at performance-oriented orgs (Stripe, Notion, etc.). Check out plan.terranova.inc for an idea of some of the web dev stuff you'll need to develop.
What You’ll Do
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Design and implement performant, maintainable web apps using TypeScript, React/Next.js, and Node/FastAPI/Go.
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Build and operate distributed backends with Postgres, Redis, and task queues.
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Manage infrastructure-as-code deployments (Terraform/CDK) on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
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Implement CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and incident-response workflows.
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Collaborate with product and robotics teams to integrate data, telemetry, and control interfaces.
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Build customer facing and internal tools
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Full stack application development
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Comfortable with the pace and intensity of early-stage startup life, including long days, and 6-day workweeks
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Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
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U.S. permanent residency required
Preferred Skills and Experience
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TypeScript
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React/Next.js
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Node/FastAPI/Go
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Postgres/Redis/queues
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Terraform/CDK
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GitHub Actions/Argo
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OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Sentry
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iOS and Android app development
How this job compares
Set against the 3,210 open Backend Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$170–247K/yr814 salary ranges
- US median$60–70/hr35 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,068 open Backend Engineer jobs in California and 3,210 across the US. 14% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- OpenAI43 open
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- Experience
- Backend Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 6 years (2,670 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 797 of the 3,210 open Backend Engineer jobs (25%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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