Senior Backend Engineer(Golang) - PerfectScale by DoiT

DoiT; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

DoiT is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their EMEA engineering teams. This fully remote role involves working on backend solutions for the PerfectScale platform, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and optimizing cloud performance. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in backend development, particularly with Go, and a passion for distributed systems.

Benefits

Unlimited PTO

Flexible Working Options

Health Insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Option Plan

Home Office Allowance

Professional Development Stipend

Peer Recognition Program

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend development experience (Go/Java/Rust/Python).
• 3+ years of commercial Golang experience.
• Experience with high traffic / high load distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver solutions.
• Implement features from design to maintenance.
• Write clean, maintainable code and perform code reviews.

Skills

Communication

Backend Development

Distributed Systems Design

Optimization

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitOps

CI/CD

Job description

Senior Backend Engineer - PerfectScale by DoiT

Location

Our Senior Backend Engineer will be an integral part of our EMEA engineering teams. This role is based remotely as a full-time employee in the UK, Ireland, Estonia, Netherlands, Sweden, and Spain. We are also open to contractors in East Europe and Portugal.

Who We Are

DoiT is a global technology company that works with cloud-driven organizations to leverage the cloud to drive business growth and innovation. We combine data, technology, and human expertise to ensure our customers operate in a well-architected and scalable state - from planning to production.
Delivering DoiT Cloud Intelligence, the only solution that integrates advanced technology with human intelligence, we help our customers solve complex multicloud problems and drive efficiency.
With decades of multicloud experience, we have specializations in Kubernetes, GenAI, CloudOps, and more. An award-winning strategic partner of AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, we work alongside more than 4,000 customers worldwide.

About DoiT's PerfectScale Platform

DoiT offers PerfectScale, a pioneering Kubernetes optimization and management solution that empowers DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering teams to optimize cloud performance while minimizing costs. We combine advanced AI technology with SME-human expertise to help organizations achieve peak Kubernetes efficiency.
The solution delivers a seamless onboarding experience, an intuitive UI, and a powerful autonomous optimization engine that ensures Kubernetes environments run efficiently with minimal human intervention.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be working on the core backend solutions, powering the PerfectScale data pipeline and business logic. You'll collaborate with product managers and developers from other teams and participate in product-making decisions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, devops, backend, and frontend engineers to deliver elegant and well-thought-out solutions for complex problems.
• Implement features from proposal through design, implementation, and maintenance, proposing enhancements that benefit the product.
• Write clean and maintainable code using engineering best practices, and perform code reviews to ensure quality.
• Improve the health of the codebase, dedicating time to housekeeping to manage technical debt.
• Provide feedback during planning and discussions to identify challenges and unknowns early.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
• 6+ years of backend development experience (Go/Java/Rust/Python).
• 3+ years of commercial Golang experience.
• 2+ years of experience with high traffic / high load distributed systems and data pipelines.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases, including performance/schema/query optimization; ClickHouse and Postgres are a big advantage.
• Experience developing enterprise-grade SaaS products, microservices, and containers.
• Experience with microservices and containers (Docker).
• Passion for distributed systems design and infrastructure.
• Familiarity with modern DevOps frameworks and practices: Docker, K8s, GitOps, CI/CD.
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization.
• Proactive, can-do attitude.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Self-organized, goal-oriented, confident, thorough, and tenacious.

Bonus Points

• Hands-on, production experience with K8s.
• Hands-on, production experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with data engineering - streaming and batch processing, Spark, Iceberg, ClickHouse, Parquet.

Are you a Do'er?

Be your truest self. Work on your terms. Make a difference.
We support flexible schedules, professional growth, and a vibrant, inclusive culture.
Learn more about our core values and what it means to be a Do'er.
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Join us and be part of a team where diversity and innovation thrive.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible Working Options
• Health Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Option Plan
• Home Office Allowance
• Professional Development Stipend
• Peer Recognition Program

Many Do'ers, One Team

We cultivate an inclusive, equitable workplace that values diverse perspectives, fostering innovation and collective success.