Senior Backend Engineer

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer, Platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and evolve distributed systems in Go to manage billions of daily events and store petabytes of data
• Lead architectural decisions focusing on performance, reliability, and real-time event processing
• Improve service-to-service communication and tackle high-throughput challenges across data pipelines

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience (typically 10+ years) building scalable, distributed systems in Go or similar languages
• Deep experience with relational and non-relational databases
• Comfort working in cloud-native environments such as AWS or GCP
• Familiarity with APIs, observability, and operating production systems
• A bias for action and pride in owning technical decisions