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Focal· HQ in United States

Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Poland · Category: Engineering & Development · Seniority: Senior · USD102,000 – USD117,500 / yearly · Posted: July 15, 2026 · Verified: Nov 13, 2026

Role Overview & Description

This role involves owning and evolving Focal Systems' production infrastructure, focusing on cloud, data pipelines, deployments, and observability to handle millions of images per day from retail locations globally. The engineer will architect scalable data-heavy backend infrastructure using Python, FastAPI, Kafka, Docker, and GCP, and implement CI/CD pipelines with blue/green and canary deployments. This requires 5+ years of infrastructure experience, production GCP experience, and a software development background in Python.
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Computer-vision software for retail shelf monitoring and store execution.

Headquarters: United States

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