Staff Engineer

About the role

We are Omnissa! Omnissa is the first AI-driven digital work platform, built to support flexible, secure, work-from anywhere experiences. We integrate industry-leading solutions—including Unified Endpoint Management, Virtual Apps and Desktops, Digital Employee Experience, and Security & Compliance—into a seamless, autonomous workspace that adapts to how people work. Our platform boosts employee engagement while optimizing IT operations, security, and cost.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, high-performance backend systems using Go, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and efficiency.
• Own end-to-end architecture and system design, including service decomposition, data modeling, API design, and inter-service communication patterns.
• Drive performance optimization initiatives across services (CPU, memory, I/O, network), and identify bottlenecks using profiling and observability tools.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, including distributed system failures, latency spikes, and resource contention across multi-service environments.
• Build and operate systems leveraging Kafka, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and caching layers (Redis/Valkey) for high-scale workloads.
• Collaborate with Product, SRE, and Security teams to ensure resilient, secure, and production-ready solutions.
• Contribute to and drive engineering excellence through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring junior engineers.
• Participate in full software lifecycle ownership: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Champion DevOps and “You build it, you run it” culture, including CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

Requirements

• Strong programming expertise in Go, with deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and performance tuning.
• Extensive experience building distributed systems and microservices architectures at scale.
• Strong understanding of system design principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency models, and trade-offs.
• Deep knowledge of Linux systems, including processes, networking stack, file systems, and performance diagnostics.
• Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration using Kubernetes or HashiStack (Nomad, Consul, Vault).
• Strong experience with event-driven and data-intensive systems using Apache Kafka.
• Experience with databases and storage systems, including PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and caching systems like Redis.
• Solid experience with cloud platforms, preferably Amazon Web Services, including managed services (MSK, Aurora, OpenSearch).
• Proven ability to analyze and optimize system performance, including profiling, benchmarking, and capacity planning.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, infrastructure, and network layers.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend systems and distributed architectures.

Skills

• Go programming language.
• Distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Linux systems and networking.
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad).
• Event-driven and data-intensive systems (Apache Kafka).
• Databases and storage systems (PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Redis).
• Cloud platforms (AWS).
• Performance analysis and optimization.
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows.

Benefits

• Employee ownership.
• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with matching contributions.
• Disability insurance.
• Paid-time off.
• Growth opportunities.

Pay

The typical base salary for this role is between USD $164,512 – $274,187 per year and it may be eligible for participation in a corporate bonus program. Actual compensation offer may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, skill level, or other relevant factors.

Schedule

Hybrid work schedule.

Location

Atlanta, GA