Senior Go Backend Engineer — OpenBao (Remote, EU)

Jobgether; Ireland; Remote; EUR 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £100k

Fully remote

33 days holiday

Parental leave

Private medical

Dental insurance

Training budget

Conference funding

Internal training

Open-source contribution

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking an experienced OpenBao Developer based in Ireland to contribute to the OpenBao open-source identity-aware secrets management platform. The role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining secure, high-performance Go backend systems for cloud-native environments.

You will collaborate with senior engineers, review architecture, and contribute to RFCs, tests, and CI/CD, while engaging with the open-source community and ensuring production reliability.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years in backend or systems software engineering.
• Strong Go proficiency including goroutines and channels.
• Security fundamentals: PKI/TLS, cryptography, API auth.
• Ability to write secure, maintainable backend code.
• OpenBao or Vault familiarity is a plus.
• Experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes; IaC tools like Terraform/OpenTofu is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain OpenBao features, plugins, storage backends, and secrets engines using Go.
• Collaborate on system architecture and RFCs with engineering leadership.
• Break down roadmaps into actionable engineering tasks and deliverables.
• Write secure, high-performance Go code following secure-by-design principles.
• Review vulnerabilities and contribute to platform security and reliability.
• Contribute to upstream Open-Source via PRs and community reviews.
• Develop tests and CI/CD support for release workflows and security testing.
• Collaborate with a distributed team across time zones.

Skills

Go

Backend engineering

Concurrency

API design

Security basics

Linux basics

Docker/Kubernetes

OpenBao familiarity

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Job description

Jobgether is seeking an experienced OpenBao Developer based in Ireland to contribute to the OpenBao open-source identity-aware secrets management platform. The role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining secure, high-performance Go backend systems for cloud-native environments.

You will collaborate with senior engineers, review architecture, and contribute to RFCs, tests, and CI/CD, while engaging with the open-source community and ensuring production reliability.