Senior Software Engineer, Backend Platform

📋 Description

• Design and evolve Go platform components used by many teams.
• Define APIs, RPC/gRPC, observability, security, and resiliency standards.
• Improve developer productivity with CI/CD pipelines and tooling.
• Advance reliability and performance with telemetry, profiling, and load testing.
• Lead migrations and modernization efforts with clear rollout plans.
• Collaborate with SRE to improve runtime operations and canary releases.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years backend software engineering building distributed systems or platforms.
• 3+ years hands-on production Go experience (designing, coding, testing, operating).
• Proficiency with APIs using gRPC and/or REST, including versioning/backward compatibility.
• Experience operating services on AWS/GCP/Azure, with containers, deployment, and runtime config.
• Strong reliability/performance foundations: observability, profiling, benchmarking, on-call.
• Track record owning platform components used by multiple teams, with documentation and rollout.
• Proficiency with CI/CD and Go build systems (modules, caching, automated testing).
• Working knowledge of security best practices (authN/Z, secrets, transport security) and resilient patterns; Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

🎁 Benefits

• Remote-first, flexible work across the U.S. and Canada.
• Equity grants and annual refresh grants.
• Remote-friendly culture with regular in-person events.
• Access to benefits programs like Taste of Instacart.