Senior Backend Engineer (Go)
BestowFull Time
Mid-level (3 to 4 years), Senior (5 to 8 years)
Candidates should possess significant experience (typically 10+ years) building scalable, distributed systems in Go (or similar statically typed languages), deep experience with databases – relational (MySQL, Postgres) and non-relational (DynamoDB, BigTable) – and how to make them fast, and comfort working in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP). Familiarity with APIs, observability, and operating production systems is also required.
The Senior Backend Engineer will design and evolve distributed systems in Go to handle billions of daily events and messages and store and index petabytes of data, lead architectural decisions around performance, reliability, and real-time event processing, improve service-to-service communication through better APIs, messaging systems, and event-driven patterns, work across teams to uncover bottlenecks and system issues, and resolve them for a smoother customer experience, tackle high-throughput challenges across data pipelines, queues, and scheduling infrastructure, debug production systems at scale using effective instrumentation, share knowledge and raise the bar through sharing progress publicly, and leverage AI tools to prototype, move faster, and make better decisions.
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