# Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

**Company:** [CommandLink](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/commandlink)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** £120k – £160k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Go, PHP, Kubernetes, Kafka, Temporal, Opensearch, Memgraph, Terraform, AWS, Azure, Postgres, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Python, Apache Flink
**Posted:** 2026-06-09

> Leads the decomposition of a PHP monolith into Go microservices while architecting distributed data, observability, and network-integrated platform systems. Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, expert Go, Kubernetes, event streaming, workflow orchestration, Terraform, and strong networking fundamentals.

## Job Description

## 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.

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