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

Location: Birmingham / hybrid or UK remote

Salary: Permanent: £90,000 – £130,000 + equity and benefits. Contract: competitive day rate

Type: Permanent or contract

Our client, a scaling technology business running high-volume systems across the UK and Europe, needs a senior Go engineer to help shape its platform. A hands-on role with real influence over architecture and standards.

What you'll do:

• 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 strong observability, metrics, alerting and incident follow-up


• Make services fast, scalable and secure under real production load


• Mentor engineers, lead code reviews and raise the technical bar


• Shape architecture decisions alongside product and engineering leadership

What you'll bring:

• Several years of backend engineering, with strong production Go


• Deep experience of distributed systems and concurrency


• Kubernetes and containers in production


• AWS or GCP, plus Terraform or similar


• Messaging such as Kafka; databases such as PostgreSQL


• gRPC, Prometheus/Grafana or a fintech/payments background a plus


• Experience mentoring or leading other engineers

Benefits:

Equity, bonus, pension and private healthcare (permanent roles).