Cloud Backend Platform Engineer, nRF Cloud - Oslo

Nordic Semiconductor is looking for a Platform Engineer to help build and scale the nRF Cloud platform. Our platform gives

hardware teams the tools to monitor, debug, and update IoT devices in production. Companies like remarkable, Whoop, and Ultrahuman

rely on it to keep millions of devices reliable in the field, and the results speak for themselves. Customers have reported stats

like 10x reductions in return rates, 90% fewer device resets, and doubled engineering productivity. We're an industry leader in

enabling hardware teams to ship with confidence and iterate fast after launch. You will join a team of platform engineers with

unique technical breadth and depth, responsible for the core backend platform underpinning nRF Cloud. You will help drive

strategic investments across infrastructure, databases, performance, reliability, and security, and ultimately help us scale a

successful business.

Own pieces of the platform end-to-end. Design, build, ship, and monitor systems that handle data from millions of IoT devices in

production. Start with the simplest solution that works, ship it, and iterate from real data. Dive deep on hard problems with

rigor. Instrument systems, experiment, and validate with data when debugging scaling, performance, reliability, or cost issues.

Ship production-quality code across the stack (Python, Kotlin, TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL/ClickHouse), holding

yourself to the testing and code review discipline this team expects. Leverage AI to assist, but own your work. Own production via

on-call. Respond to incidents, identify and resolve root causes, and lead postmortems and follow-ups. But know you’re not alone -

you have an incredible team behind you. Champion observability across the organization. Put meaningful metrics, logs, and alerts

in place so problems surface before customers feel them. Write clear technical docs and RFCs for the systems you touch, so

decisions and tradeoffs are legible to the team. Partner cross-functionally with Product, SDK & Field Engineering, and Support to

turn customer and business needs into concrete technical work.

3+ years of software engineering experience Proven ability to ship production code independently. You're comfortable owning a

feature or service end-to-end, contributing to architecture decisions, and debugging issues in production. Familiarity with AWS,

including services such as EKS, RDS, S3, EC2, ECS, and related tooling. Solid experience with relational databases, especially

PostgreSQL, including schema design (multi-tenant systems a plus), query optimization, and operational concerns. Proficiency in

backend programming, with a strong preference for Python, Kotlin, and/or TypeScript. Experience with Kubernetes, including

deploying, operating, and scaling production workloads. Practical experience with observability and monitoring tooling such as

Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Sentry, or similar, and a track record of improving system reliability. Strong written and verbal

communication. We’re a globally distributed team solving mission-critical problems and clear communication makes all the

difference. Nice to Have: Background in IoT, developer tools, or embedded systems tooling. Experience with building device

telemetry pipelines or working with protocols like MQTT or CoAP. Familiarity with ClickHouse or other columnar/analytical

databases for high-volume time-series or event data.

You're caring, kind, and low-ego. Other people do better work when they work with you. You think about systems, not just tasks.

You look upstream to figure out why things aren't working and fix the root cause, not the symptom. You default to clarity. You

communicate decisions and tradeoffs so others can act on them, and you're upfront about what you don't know yet. You're a strong

communicator. You can explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders and hold your own in a room of senior engineers.

You're curious about the domain. You want to understand how IoT devices work, what firmware engineers actually need, and how cloud

tooling and AI can make hardware product teams fundamentally more effective.

Working for Nordic Semiconductor, you will be inspired and supported to develop yourself. Our teams enjoy a professional and

informal working environment. We value and encourage the continuous development of skills and expertise to the highest levels. We

are proud of our Norwegian heritage, our highly skilled international workforce, world-leading innovation, and professional

brilliance. We offer a variety of tasks and projects, and the possibility to work alongside some of the world’s most renowned

experts within their field. We encourage our employees to question the established and innovate while expecting professionalism,

commitment, and the will to learn.