Overview

We're looking for a Software Developer — Backstage. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Right Balance provides top-tier technology talent for innovative companies in the US. We’re in the top 50 companies to watch in LA.

Client Engagement Details

In a rapidly evolving world of interactive entertainment, this company positions itself not as a game creator—but as the engine that empowers creators. Think of them as the behind‑the‑scenes partner who enables studios, publishers, and producers to move faster, smarter, and at scale.

Their target clients are game publishers, developers, and producers who have big visions but need help making those visions reliable, viable, and financially efficient. They’re not selling games—they’re selling enablement: future‑proofed operations, leaner infrastructure, richer data, and immersive innovation.

Seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to play a pivotal role in building, customizing, and scaling Backstage (Spotify’s open-source Internal Developer Portal) for enterprise teams. This position focuses on centralizing software cataloging, improving developer experience, and enhancing workflow automation for large-scale technical environments.

The role requires both strong engineering talent and collaborative ability to work seamlessly with platform, infrastructure, and security teams.

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

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 tailored for enterprise-scale adoption.
• Enterprise Integration: Architect solutions and connect Backstage to existing systems (CI/CD, observability, identity, cloud, and documentation platforms).
• Developer Experience Enablement: Champion workflow automation, documentation, and self-service capabilities within Backstage to boost engineering productivity.
• Customization and Security: Work with stakeholders to customize permissions, implement security and compliance requirements, and scale Backstage across multiple teams and regions.
• Observability and Monitoring: Integrate Backstage with monitoring and analytics solutions to provide visibility into software and team performance.
• Collaboration: Partner with engineering, SRE, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver enterprise-ready developer portal solutions.
• Documentation: Develop clear and actionable documentation, onboarding guides, and plugin usage instructions for technical and non-technical audiences.

Availability: Full-time.

What’s in it for you

1. Learn and evolve your skills using the latest and greatest technology tools in a rapidly growing company.
2. Learn from the best people around you. We constantly challenge the status quo and invent new ways of building a great product.
3. 100% remote. Work anywhere, whether it is remotely in the comfort of your home, in a shared co-working space, in an RV on the beach, or while being a nomad in another country.
4. Work on challenging problems, innovate, and positively impact many people's lives while having fun doing it.

Required Qualifications

• Upper-intermediate to fluent speaking and writing English. Able to have a real-time conversation.
• 5+ years of full-time hands-on Software/Platform Engineer experience.
• 5+ years of full-time hands-on Typescript/Javascript experience.
• 5+ years of full-time hands-on React.js experience.
• 4+ years of full-time hands-on Node.js experience.
• 3+ years of full-time hands-on AWS experience.
• Previous work integrating Backstage with CI/CD, cloud, monitoring, and identity tools (such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS, Datadog).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and infrastructure-as-code.
• Solid understanding of microservices, containerization, and orchestration.

Nice to haves

• Express framework.
• Terraform.
• Pulumi.
• Docker.
• Kubernetes.
• Prior participation in Backstage open-source projects, contributions, or community engagement
• Experience implementing compliance/security controls in developer platforms.
• Background in supporting multi-region/multi-cloud deployments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent demonstrated ability.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are your typical clients?

The majority of our clients are venture-backed startups at the growth stage. Usually, at this stage, the company already achieved a product-market fit and is looking to expand rapidly. That’s where we bring the best engineering practices, strong architecture, the latest technologies, and consistent processes to help companies scale.

What is the length of your engagements?

Most of our long-term full-time engagements last multiple years. It allows you to evolve your career with the client company taking on more responsibilities.

What’s your company size?

The Right Balance team is 55+ engineers going to 75+ by the end of the year. The current client size team is 150+ people. The timing is great to be a part of a rapidly growing team making meaningful contributions.

What happens if the engagement is completed?

Most of our engagements are long-term in nature. That said, if the current engagement is ramping down, we’ll present you with more long-term opportunities to transition into.

What are your core values?

Client First: we only win when our clients win. We treat client challenges as our own.

Ownership: we embrace responsibility, taking on challenges, getting them to completion, and enjoying getting things done.

Quality: we’re passionate about achieving quality outcomes by applying meticulous attention to detail.