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

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.