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Senior Software Engineer, Backend Platform
Location
Canada
Posted
13 days ago
Salary
$196K - $207K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer, Backend Platform
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• Collaborate with platform engineers and SREs to deliver high-leverage capabilities that make building, operating, and scaling Go services simpler and safer. • Design, build, and evolve Go platform components (frameworks, libraries, service templates, and tooling) that are adopted across many product teams. • Define and socialize engineering standards for APIs, RPC/gRPC, configuration, observability, security, and resiliency to improve service quality and consistency. • Improve developer productivity through better build/test pipelines, reproducible local dev, CI/CD workflows, and automation that reduces toil. • Advance reliability and performance by enabling robust telemetry (OpenTelemetry), profiling, load testing, and capacity planning baked into the platform. • Lead migrations and modernization efforts (e.g., Go runtime upgrades, service mesh adoption, framework consolidation) with clear rollout and deprecation plans. • Collaborate with SRE to enhance runtime operations (service discovery, traffic management, canary/blue-green releases, incident response) for Go services. • Provide technical leadership, documentation, and enablement for teams adopting platform capabilities; participate in on-call rotations for platform-owned services.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering building distributed systems or platforms.
- 3+ years of hands-on production experience with Go (designing, coding, testing, and operating Go services or libraries).
- Proficiency with service-oriented architectures using gRPC and/or REST, including API design, versioning, and backward compatibility.
- Experience operating services on a major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containerization, deployment, and runtime configuration.
- Strong foundations in reliability and performance: observability (metrics, logs, traces), profiling, benchmarking, and incident/on-call experience.
- Track record of owning platform components (frameworks, SDKs, or shared libraries) used by multiple teams, including documentation and rollout.
- Proficiency with CI/CD and build systems (e.g., Go modules, build caching, automated testing) to improve developer productivity and release quality.
- Working knowledge of service security best practices (authN/Z, secrets management, transport security) and resilient patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breaking).
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Equity grants
- Annual refresh grants
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