Senior Backend Engineer(Golang) - PerfectScale by DoiT

Senior Backend Engineer - PerfectScale by [Employer hidden]

Our Senior Backend Engineer will be an integral part of our EMEA engineering teams. This role is based remotely as a full-time employee in the UK, Ireland, Estonia, Netherlands, Sweden and Spain. We are also open to contractors in East Europe and Portugal.

[Employer hidden] offers PerfectScale, a pioneering Kubernetes optimization and management solution that empowers DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering teams to optimize cloud performance while minimizing costs. We combine advanced AI technology with SME-human expertise to help organizations achieve peak Kubernetes efficiency.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be working on the core backend solutions, powering PerfectScale data pipeline and business logic. You'll be collaborating with product managers, and developers from other teams and also participate in product-making decisions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, devops, backend and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well thought out solutions for complex problems
• Implementing features. From the proposal through design and implementation to maintenance. You're expected to propose things that you think can be an excellent addition to the products
• Write clean and maintainable code using engineering best practices, you will also ensure clean code and best practices while performing code reviews for your peers
• Improving the health of the codebase. We’re mindful of accumulating technical debt. We dedicate one day per week to housekeeping
• Providing feedback. The team plans and discusses the upcoming work. We provide feedback to each other, trying to find challenges and unknowns as early as possible

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal
• 6+ years of backend development experience (Go/Java/Rust/Python)
• 3+ years of commercial Golang experience
• 2+ years of experience with high traffic / high load distributed systems and data pipelines
• Experience with Databases - relational and non-relational, including performance / schema / query optimization. ClickHouse and Postgress are a big advantage.
• Experience developing enterprise-grade SaaS products, microservices and containers
• Experienced working with microservices and containers (Docker)
• Experience and passion for distributed systems design and infrastructure
• Familiarity with modern Devops frameworks and best practices - Docker, K8s, GitOps, CI/CD
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Proactive, can do approach
• Ability to effectively operate with flexibility in a fast-paced, constantly evolving team environment
• Self-organized, Goal-oriented, self-motivated individual who is confident, thorough and tenacious

Bonus Points

• Hands-on, production experience with K8S
• Hands-on, production experience with cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with data engineering - streaming and batch processing, spark, tryno, iceberg, clickhouse, parquet

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Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible Working Options
• Health Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Option Plan
• Home Office Allowance
• Professional Development Stipend
• Peer Recognition Program

[Employer hidden] unites as Many Do'ers, One Team, where diversity is more than a goal—it's our strength. We actively cultivate an inclusive, equitable workplace, recognizing that each unique perspective enhances our innovation. By celebrating differences, we create an environment where every individual feels valued, contributing to our collective success.

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