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

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.