Senior Go Backend Engineer: Scale, Reliability, Ownership

Customer.io; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 113,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Unlimited PTO

16 weeks parental leave

Remote work stipend

Development budget

Job summary

Customer.io in the United Kingdom seeks experienced backend engineers to design, build, and evolve distributed Go systems powering high-scale messaging. You’ll own architecture, deploy reliable solutions, and collaborate across teams to improve performance and reliability.

On-call rotation and AI-assisted workflows are part of the role, with strong emphasis on ownership and impact. Remote-friendly with generous benefits and competitive compensation in USD, we value pragmatic progress and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building scalable distributed systems in Go or similar language.
• Experience with cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP).
• Familiarity with relational databases (MySQL) and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed systems in Go for high-scale messaging.
• Collaborate across teams to debug issues and deliver reliable solutions.
• Own architecture, schema design, testing, deployment, and monitoring.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Relational databases

Observability

On-call

Ownership

Mentorship

Tools

MySQL

AWS

GCP

Job description

Customer.io in the United Kingdom seeks experienced backend engineers to design, build, and evolve distributed Go systems powering high-scale messaging. You’ll own architecture, deploy reliable solutions, and collaborate across teams to improve performance and reliability.

On-call rotation and AI-assisted workflows are part of the role, with strong emphasis on ownership and impact. Remote-friendly with generous benefits and competitive compensation in USD, we value pragmatic progress and