Architect, design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and systems.
Drive technical initiatives and large cross-team projects from concept to production.
Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and engineers across distributed teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
Develop deep expertise in observability tools and technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, time-series databases, and distributed tracing.
Build and maintain high-performance APIs and microservices using Go (Golang) and gRPC, integrating with systems like Kafka, Redis, and NoSQL databases.
Work with Terraform and Ansible to automate infrastructure deployment and configuration management.
Utilize knowledge of SQL for data analysis, service integration, and operational insights.
Lead efforts in debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning of complex distributed systems.
Champion operational excellence by improving reliability, monitoring, and alerting practices.
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to other engineers.

Requirements

15+ years of relevant industry experience building and operating large-scale cloud services or distributed systems in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Strong programming experience in Go (Golang) and deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
Solid understanding of observability, monitoring, and alerting systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
Experience working with OTEL (OpenTelemetry) Collector, including instrumentation, data pipelines, and telemetry ingestion for metrics, logs, and traces.
Proven experience designing and implementing scalable event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar technologies.
Experience with gRPC, Terraform, and Ansible for service communication and infrastructure automation.
Working knowledge of SQL, Redis, and NoSQL databases.
Demonstrated ability to drive operational excellence and improve system reliability.
Experience making pragmatic technical trade-offs while balancing short-term needs and long-term goals.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially with geographically distributed teams.
Strong ownership mindset and the ability to independently deliver high-impact projects.

Benefits

Competitive salary
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities
Flexible work hours
Employee Assistance Program
Local Employee Meetups
Reimbursement for relevant conferences and training
Access to LinkedIn Learning's courses
Bonus eligibility based on performance
Equity compensation for eligible employees

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

Go (Golang)gRPCSQLKafkaRedisNoSQL databasesTerraformAnsibleobservabilitydistributed systems

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationleadershipmentorshipownership mindsettroubleshootingperformance tuningoperational excellencetechnical trade-offsproject delivery