Remote Go Backend Engineer — Internal Dev Tools

Megaport; Australia; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly culture

Coworking options

Parental leave

Birthday leave

Purchased annual leave

Wellness allowance

Study & training allowance

WeWork access

Job summary

Megaport is seeking a Go-focused Backend Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team in Australia/NZ. You will design, develop, and maintain internal developer tooling, APIs, and services that power our engineering organization and scale with us.

You will build high-performance Go backends and CLI tooling, integrate with Kubernetes/EKS, and help automate workflows, access management, and governance as code while collaborating with cross-functional teams across time zones.

Qualifications

• Proven professional experience as a Backend Engineer using Go.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Demonstrated experience with building services on top of Kubernetes.
• Solid knowledge of scalable web service development, including RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in designing and consuming APIs, including managing authentication and authorization protocols.
• Proficiency in database management, with hands-on experience in optimizing database performance, designing schemas, and query optimization.

Responsibilities

• Develop Internal Developer Tooling: Build high-performance Go-based APIs, microservices, and CLI tools that reduce friction, automate manual processes, and enhance productivity for our engineering teams.
• Engineer Scalable Automation: Design and implement systems that orchestrate workflows between our systems of record, SaaS platforms, and internal infrastructure.
• Implement Governance-as-Code: Design and maintain automated systems for repository and service oversight, ensuring our engineering ecosystem remains consistent, secure, and aligned with organizational standards as we scale.
• Build Self-Service Infrastructure: Create and maintain the automated interfaces and abstractions that allow teams to request and manage infrastructure resources securely without Platform team intervention.
• Operate and Optimize: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, deploy, and maintain reliable, Go-based backend systems hosted on Kubernetes/EKS. Take ownership of performance profiling and tuning to ensure platform responsiveness and reliability.

Skills

Go

Backend engineering

Kubernetes

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

API authentication/authorization

Database design

AWS

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Docker

GitHub

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Megaport is seeking a Go-focused Backend Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team in Australia/NZ. You will design, develop, and maintain internal developer tooling, APIs, and services that power our engineering organization and scale with us.

You will build high-performance Go backends and CLI tooling, integrate with Kubernetes/EKS, and help automate workflows, access management, and governance as code while collaborating with cross-functional teams across time zones.