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AlpacaAlpacaUnited States

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.

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Remote5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

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

GoKubernetesHelmPostgresRedpandaKafkagRPCPrometheusGrafanaArgo CdTerraformGCPProtocol BuffersJwtOpenid Connect

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