Senior Go Engineer – Cloud Platform & Distributed Systems

Eclipse IT Recruitment; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Pension

Private healthcare

Job summary

Eclipse IT Recruitment is seeking a senior Go engineer to help scale a technology business with high-volume systems across the UK and Europe. The role offers architectural influence and hands-on leadership in a fast-paced environment.

You will design and build distributed Go backends, evolve the cloud platform (Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD) and ensure reliability through observability and strong incident response, while mentoring engineers and collaborating with leadership.

Qualifications

• Several years of backend engineering experience with production Go.
• Deep experience in distributed systems and concurrency.
• Kubernetes and containers in production environments.
• AWS or GCP experience with Terraform or similar IaC.
• Message streaming (Kafka) and databases (PostgreSQL).
• Knowledge of gRPC and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana) is a plus.
• Experience mentoring or leading other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and build of distributed backend systems in Go.
• Evolve the cloud platform: Kubernetes, infrastructure as code and CI/CD.
• Own reliability through observability, metrics, alerts and incident response.
• Make services fast, scalable and secure under production load.
• Mentor engineers, lead code reviews and raise the technical bar.
• Shape architecture decisions alongside product and engineering leadership.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP

Terraform

Kafka

PostgreSQL

gRPC/Prometheus

Mentoring/leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Kafka

Prometheus/Grafana

Docker

Job description

Eclipse IT Recruitment is seeking a senior Go engineer to help scale a technology business with high-volume systems across the UK and Europe. The role offers architectural influence and hands-on leadership in a fast-paced environment.

You will design and build distributed Go backends, evolve the cloud platform (Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD) and ensure reliability through observability and strong incident response, while mentoring engineers and collaborating with leadership.