# Senior Backend Developer, Go - Trust & Safety

**Company:** [Bluesky Social](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/bluesky)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Postgres, MySQL, Sqlite, Redis, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, ETL, Scylla, Cassandra
**Posted:** 2025-09-05

> Builds and maintains scalable backend infrastructure for Trust & Safety platform, focusing on high-volume pipelines, ETLs, databases, and abuse prevention systems using Go. Requires 5+ years Go experience and expertise in databases and scalable systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain high-volume pipelines and databases
- Manage and create ETLs that power automated abuse-prevention
- Assist with the scaling and implementation of the backends for internal tools
- Work closely with engineers across the organization to integrate safety systems
- Develop monitoring and observability solutions for data infrastructure

## Requirements
- Strong fundamental programming and software engineering skills
- Extensive experience with Go (e.g. 5+ years)
- Built scalable backend systems (1M+ ops/sec) (e.g. data services, load balancers, etc.)
- Familiarity with the upper limits of operating systems, networks, and storage
- Significant experience with database systems (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, SQLite)
- Some experience with other data stores (e.g. Scylla/Cassandra, Redis, ClickHouse)
- Some experience with search systems (e.g. Elasticsearch)
- Like working on small, fast-moving teams
- Have read the AT Protocol docs and want to contribute

## Nice-to-Haves
- Previous experience working on infrastructure for social apps at large scale

## Compensation
- Anticipated base salary range: $170,000 - $230,000, excluding equity

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