Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and own Go services on our platform, from API design to production operations.
• Build event-driven pipelines on Kafka and Redis that move high-volume inference results reliably.
• Define service contracts (REST and gRPC/Protobuf) that other teams can build against.
• Model data in MongoDB and other stores for correctness and performance at scale.
• Make services production-grade: health and readiness checks, metrics, tracing, graceful shutdown and safe retries.
• Deploy and run services on Kubernetes across AWS and Azure.
• Lead design reviews, raise the bar on code review and testing, and mentor other engineers.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of backend engineering, including Go in production.
• Strong experience with distributed systems: message queues (Kafka or similar), caching (Redis), retries, idempotency and backpressure.
• Experience designing REST and gRPC APIs with Protobuf.
• Strong with MongoDB or another production database, including indexing and query performance.
• Hands-on with Docker and Kubernetes, and with at least one of AWS, Azure or GCP.
• You write tests as part of the work, and you have operated the services you built (metrics, alerts, incidents).
• Experience with video, streaming or ML-serving systems is a plus.
• Clear written communication: you can write a design doc others can act on.

Skills

AWS, Azure, Docker, GCP, Go, Golang, Kafka, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Protobuf, Redis, gRPC