Senior Go Engineer - Cloud Platform / Distributed Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Pension

Private healthcare

Job summary

Our client Eclipse IT Recruitment is seeking a senior Go engineer to shape a high-volume platform in Manchester, with hybrid or UK remote options. It's a hands-on role with architecture influence and oversight over reliability, security, and performance.

You'll lead distributed backend design in Go, evolve the cloud stack with Kubernetes and IaC, mentor peers, and collaborate with product and engineering leadership to set technical direction. Equity and benefits accompany permanent roles.

Qualifications

• Several years of backend engineering with production Go experience.
• Proven ability with distributed systems and concurrency.
• Production Kubernetes experience on cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) and IaC tooling.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Go backend

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP

Terraform

Kafka & PostgreSQL

gRPC

Mentoring/leading

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

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).