Senior Software Engineer - Platform
Builds and maintains platform shared services including Redpanda event streaming and auth systems using Go. Owns infrastructure, deployments, and Kubernetes ops at scale in a startup environment. Requires 5+ years experience with 1+ in Go and advanced K8s skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Maintain and improve Redpanda-based event streaming infrastructure
- Develop replacement for authentication and authorization services
- Create event-driven solutions to replace batch processing
- Take ownership of tasks, identify technical challenges, propose solutions
- Contribute to architectural decisions for scalable systems
- Collaborate with teams to improve system interactions
- Maintain software quality and test coverage
- Participate in code reviews
- Troubleshoot incidents and bugs
- Participate in on-call rotation
Requirements
- 5+ years experience in strongly-typed languages, 1+ year in Go
- Advanced Kubernetes knowledge: write Helm charts, security best practices
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL)
- Startup experience handling technical debt and ambiguity
- End-to-end task ownership: requirements to deployment/monitoring
- 3+ years on systems at scale
Nice-to-Haves
- Kafka/ Redpanda experience
- JWT, OpenID Connect, SAML, Keycloak, authentication systems
- IaC with Argo CD, Terraform, GCP, GKE
- Grafana, Prometheus, Tempo, PromQL
- FlatBuffers, Protocol Buffers, gRPC, REST APIs
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary & stock options
- Health benefits
- New hire home-office setup: $500 one-time
- Monthly stipend: $150 USD
Skills
Go, Kubernetes, Helm, Postgres, Redpanda, Kafka, gRPC, Prometheus, Grafana, Argo Cd, Terraform, GCP, Protocol Buffers, Jwt, Openid Connect
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