Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Go)
Commerce · Austin, TX · 4 days ago
RemoteRemoteInformation Technology$136k–$204k/yrFull-time
What You Will Do
- Collaborate on the architecture, design, and development of scalable and highly available applications and services.
- Solve complex infrastructure-related problems with code, developing and providing post-release support for scalable applications.
- Identify and implement enhancements to DevOps practices and tooling, leveraging automation to enhance robustness of the CI/CD pipeline, thereby streamlining efficient application development and deployment.
- Drive technology design and articulate architecture solution options to the product owners and Engineering leadership.
- Conduct post-mortems to analyze and prevent repeat failures.
- Become a champion for Continuous Improvement in end-to-end infrastructure and systems.
- Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes that solve concrete business problems.
Who You Are
- 5+ years of programming experience in backend languages like GoLang (Strongly preferred), Python, PHP, Java, etc.
- 2+ years experience with MySQL, caching technologies (like Redis) and other non-relational data storage solutions
- Strong understanding of database schema design, caching and scalability
- Strong understanding of various communication protocols (TCP, RPC, etc)
- Strong understanding of Distributed Systems
- Experience with PHP is a plus
- Experience with Kubernetes is strongly preferred
- Workable understanding of Linux operating systems
- Experience with modern CI/CD and containerization tools like Docker
- Ability to perform time and memory complexity analysis
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills