Senior Go Engineer - Backend & HPC Platform

Grid Dynamics; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Sports

Flexible schedule

Professional development

Well-equipped office

Job summary

JUXT in London is seeking a Senior Golang Engineer to join a hybrid engineering team, building backend services, APIs and platform tooling that connect researchers with compute infrastructure. You will own substantial backend and platform challenges across an HPC-focused environment, emphasizing performance, security and reliability.

You will work closely with infra and research teams, applying Go and distributed-system concepts, while leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience developing production backend services and systems using Go.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, infrastructure, networking and OS fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with containers, particularly Docker or Podman.
• Strong relational database experience, ideally PostgreSQL and/or MariaDB/MySQL.
• Experience designing database schemas and modelling complex system state.
• Knowledge of secrets management, encryption and security (Vault or equivalent).
• Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability and production engineering.
• Ability to take ownership of technical deliverables and architectural decisions.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools and recent AI models.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain production-grade backend services and platform tooling using Go.
• Build research-facing HTTP APIs and Python client libraries for submitting and managing computational workflows.
• Develop services for DAGs, job submission, retries, cancellation, logging and resource profiling.
• Integrate with cluster workload schedulers and translate workloads into execution plans.
• Design and maintain platform state services and relational databases to track jobs and resources.
• Implement secure authentication, encryption and secrets management (PKI, key management, token auth).
• Develop automation for host lifecycle management (draining, rebuilding, patching).
• Build containerised job execution tooling with Docker and Podman, including credentials and encrypted dirs.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines across environments.
• Collaborate with infra, platform and research eng to deliver scalable solutions.
• Use AI-assisted development tools in engineering workflows.

Skills

Go

Backend design

Linux systems

Containers (Docker/Podman)

Databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL)

Security & encryption

CI/CD pipelines

Distributed systems

AI-assisted development

Communication & collaboration

Tools

Docker

Podman

PostgreSQL

MariaDB/MySQL

Vault PKI

GitLab CI/CD

Ansible

Job description

JUXT in London is seeking a Senior Golang Engineer to join a hybrid engineering team, building backend services, APIs and platform tooling that connect researchers with compute infrastructure. You will own substantial backend and platform challenges across an HPC-focused environment, emphasizing performance, security and reliability.

You will work closely with infra and research teams, applying Go and distributed-system concepts, while leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve