Kentik

Senior Backend Engineer – Platform Engineering, Network Data

Kentik

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $177,000 - $240,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Work as an Individual Contributor to improve our network data observability services to meet customer demands.
  • Collaborate with other engineer teams, support, and sales teams.
  • Work on high-visibility, challenging engineering problems

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in backend development using Go, with a strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and high-throughput data pipelines
  • Experience building scalable REST/gRPC APIs and Kafka-based streaming pipelines is a plus
  • Experience in network management or network data analytics
  • Basic understanding of network observability topics like IPFIX/Netflow/sflow, SNMP, IP (v4/v6) allocation, BGP, DNS, etc and the network domain and use cases
  • A passion to grow personally and contribute to our team
  • Strong collaboration skills
Benefits
  • 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
  • Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
  • Paid family & medical leave
  • Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
  • 401(k) retirement account
  • Home office reimbursement
  • Stock options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Gobackend developmentdistributed systemsconcurrencyhigh-throughput data pipelinesREST APIsgRPC APIsKafkanetwork managementnetwork data analytics
Soft Skills
collaborationindividual contributorpassion for growth