Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Responsibilities

• Lead decomposition of a PHP monolith into well-scoped Go microservices, including service boundaries, data contracts, and migration sequencing.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Go services and API gateways with authentication and authorization boundaries.
• Lead technical design and architecture discussions.
• Architect and evolve distributed data infrastructure using event-driven pipelines, durable workflows, search and analytics, and graph-based data modelling.
• Integrate with third-party APIs, telemetry systems, SD-WAN controllers, VoIP platforms, and network device telemetry.
• Support Terraform-managed cloud infrastructure and enforce standards for reproducibility, security, and cost-aware architecture.
• Support SLAs, SLOs, and CI/CD quality gates.
• Write clean, testable, and documented Go code; uphold standards through code reviews.
• Identify and resolve performance, reliability, and scalability issues.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to operational excellence.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant depth in backend systems and production-grade distributed architectures.
• Expert-level Go, including idiomatic patterns, concurrency, the standard library, and complexity management.
• Practical experience with LLM development processes.
• Demonstrable experience decomposing a PHP monolith, including strangler fig patterns, anti-corruption layers, and data-ownership migration.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience.
• Experience with Kafka or equivalent event streaming, including topic design, consumer groups, back-pressure, and operations at scale.
• Experience with Temporal for durable workflow orchestration.
• Experience with Memgraph or an equivalent graph database.
• Deep experience with log management, custom metrics, dashboards, and monitors.
• Terraform experience, including module design, state management, and multi-environment configuration.
• Understanding of relational and non-relational databases, query optimization, and data modelling.
• Strong networking and systems fundamentals, including routing, switching, DNS, BGP, VLANs, SNMP, NetFlow, or syslog.
• Experience with AWS or Azure, including managed services, IAM, networking, and cost-aware architecture.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ownership mindset and willingness to participate in on-call rotations.

Nice-to-haves

• Steampipe, Osquery, or similar cloud asset inventory platforms.
• Apache Flink or other stream-processing frameworks.
• Data mesh or data fabric architectural patterns.
• ISP or MSP network management.
• Cybersecurity.
• Open-source data infrastructure contributions.
• SD-WAN, VoIP, BGP, or MPLS exposure.
• gRPC and Protocol Buffers.
• Python for tooling, scripting, or data work.
• Flink or Spark at scale.

Benefits

• Room to grow at a high-growth company.
• Innovative environment that celebrates ideas.
• Tangible impact on the business.
• Flexible time off.
• Company events.
• Employee referral bonuses.