Senior Go Engineer – Cloud Platform / Distributed Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Pension

Private healthcare

Job summary

Eclipse IT Recruitment is helping a scaling technology business in the UK hire a senior Go engineer in Manchester. This hands-on role shapes architecture and standards across high-volume systems.

You will lead distributed backend design, drive Kubernetes-based platforms, observability and CI/CD, and mentor other engineers. Hybrid Manchester or remote UK options are available, with equity and benefits for a permanent role.

Qualifications

• Several years of backend engineering with production Go experience.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and concurrency.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containers in production.
• Experience with AWS or GCP and IaC tools like Terraform.
• Mentoring or leading other engineers is a plus.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Go backend

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Code reviews

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

GCP

PostgreSQL

Kafka

gRPC

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

Location: Manchester / 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).