Remote Go Backend Engineer—OpenBao & Security Tools

EasyInfoBlog.com LLC; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

33 days leave

Parental leave

Private medical and dental insurance

Training budget

Industry conferences

Books and courses

Job summary

ControlPlane is seeking an OpenBao Developer to build and maintain core features, plugins, storage backends and secrets engines using Go. You’ll help shape architecture, docs and roadmaps while practicing secure, memory-safe coding.

You’ll collaborate across time zones, review open-source work, and contribute to security tooling, tests and CI/CD integration. This remote role in the UK offers a competitive salary and opportunities for growth.

Qualifications

• Strong experience developing production-grade applications using Go.
• Good understanding of concurrency, including goroutines and channels.
• Knowledge of software architecture, interface design, testing and performance profiling.
• Understanding of PKI/TLS, cryptography, authentication, authorisation and API security.
• 3–5+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Familiarity with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform/OpenTofu.
• Ability to collaborate across international time zones.
• Right to work in the UK or EU.
• Experience with OpenBao, HashiCorp Vault or open-source security projects is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain OpenBao core features, plugins, storage backends and secrets engines using Go.
• Collaborate on system architecture, technical documentation and product roadmaps.
• Apply secure coding practices, cryptography standards and memory safety principles.
• Identify and resolve software vulnerabilities.
• Contribute to open-source development through code reviews and issue management.
• Develop security tools, integrations and internal technical projects.
• Write unit, integration and security tests.
• Support CI/CD automation, software releases and supply-chain security.

Skills

Go

Concurrency (goroutines)

API security

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform/OpenTofu

OpenBao

HashiCorp Vault

Security

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform/OpenTofu

HashiCorp Vault

OpenBao

Job description

ControlPlane is seeking an OpenBao Developer to build and maintain core features, plugins, storage backends and secrets engines using Go. You’ll help shape architecture, docs and roadmaps while practicing secure, memory-safe coding.

You’ll collaborate across time zones, review open-source work, and contribute to security tooling, tests and CI/CD integration. This remote role in the UK offers a competitive salary and opportunities for growth.