Medior Backend Software Engineer - Core Services

Bitrise

Bitrise

Software Engineering

Budapest, Hungary

Posted on Apr 17, 2026

As a Software Engineer at Bitrise, you will contribute to building and improving the core services that power our CI/CD platform. You’ll work closely with your team to develop scalable and reliable systems, ensuring that our platform meets the needs of our users around the world. Your work will directly impact our customers by improving build speed, reliability, and scalability.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on high-scale distributed systems, automation, and reliability. You’ll help drive both product and platform initiatives, combining software engineering expertise with infrastructure knowledge to build efficient, scalable systems.

The gross monthly salary for this position: 1,300,000–1,950,000 HUF

As a Backend Software Engineer at Bitrise you will

  • Develop and maintain Go backend services related to orchestration systems,, virtualization (macOS and Linux), and infrastructure management (macOS and Linux).
  • Optimize performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency across the platform.
  • Apply DevOps principles by building systems that are automatable, observable, and resilient by default.
  • Participate in code reviews, RFC discussions, and architectural planning.
  • Take ownership of operational excellence through on-call rotations and incident reviews.
  • Collaborate with other cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of the services.

Key skills and characteristics

  • Passion for backend development and problem-solving.
  • 2-4 years of experience with at least one backend programming language (Go preferred, but C#/Java/Python also acceptable).
  • Solid knowledge of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
  • Basic experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS), containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform).
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles.
  • Strong communication skills and a proactive, ownership-driven mindset.
  • A strong desire for continuous learning and improvement, ability to pick up new technologies quickly.
  • Familiarity with data-driven development
  • Strong testing culture

What would really knock our socks off

  • Experience with macOS operation
  • Interest and knowledge of the macOS virtualization world
  • Libvirt knowledge and experience
  • Experience with CI/CD development or “deep tech”

What we offer

  • A high degree of autonomy and trust. Your work will have real, lasting impact on the product
  • Dedicated investment in your personal growth and development
  • The chance to experiment with and stay ahead of the latest AI development tooling. We actively encourage it.
  • The stability of a financially healthy company with a growing global customer base
  • A dynamic environment with new challenges and opportunities

About Bitrise

Bitrise is a continuous integration and delivery platform, built by and for mobile app developers. Our mission? To help everyone build and operate better mobile apps. By streamlining, automating and optimizing recurring mobile development processes, we free up time and resources for creative, interesting and impactful development tasks, resulting in better, faster releases.

As a successful graduate of Y Combinator, we are born of the same DNA as Airbnb, Reddit and Dropbox. Since Bitrise was launched in 2015, we have grown exponentially: Today, tens of thousands of developers release apps via Bitrise that end up on billions of mobile devices around the world.

Some of the teams who already trust us are Tripadvisor, Shopify or GoDaddy.. Pick up any mobile device, and chances are you’ll encounter multiple apps that were built on Bitrise. Working at Bitrise means contributing to all of that.