Senior Backend Engineer – Golang & Cloud Systems

Winzons; India; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with deep Go expertise to join our engineering team. You will lead design, build, and maintenance of high-throughput services and data pipelines that power our platform.

You will work across APIs, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines, focusing on correctness, performance, and reliability to support open data initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years writing production-grade Go, with a solid grasp of concurrency patterns, idiomatic design, and performance characteristics.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems: scalability, consistency trade-offs, and fault tolerance
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating containerized services in cloud environments
• Relational database design and optimization - schema modelling, indexing, and query analysis
• Familiarity with identity and access management standards (token-based auth, delegated authorization flows)
• Experience using in-memory data stores for caching, session state, or pub/sub messaging
• Disciplined approach to software quality: testing at multiple levels, static analysis, and clear code review feedback
• Comfortable working on Linux systems with containerization and infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Familiar with 12-factor app principles and the operational concerns of cloud-native services

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-throughput Go services and data ingestion pipelines
• Build secure, well-documented APIs using standard authentication and authorization protocols
• Deploy, configure, and operate services in cloud and container environments
• Own database schema design, query optimization, and migration strategies
• Apply appropriate caching and messaging patterns to meet reliability and latency requirements
• Write clean, well-tested code - unit tests, integration tests, and contract tests where applicable
• Uphold strong source control practices : meaningful commits, disciplined branching, and thorough pull request reviews
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and shared developer tooling
• Participate in architecture reviews, technical planning, and cross-team design discussions
• Support and mentor engineers through code review and knowledge sharing

Skills

Go programming

Distributed systems

API design

Performance optimization

CI/CD practices

Tools

Container orchestration

Cloud platforms

SQL databases

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Company Name: Indian Institute of Science

Job Role: Senior Backend Engineer

Work Type: Full-Time

Job Category: Backend Development / Cloud Engineering

Experience: 5+ Years

Location: Bangalore, India

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with deep Go expertise to join our engineering team.

You will work across three interconnected areas: building reliable data pipelines and IoT ingestion systems, designing and securing API services that power our platform, and contributing to the cloud infrastructure tooling that keeps everything running.

This is a role for engineers who care about correctness, performance, and maintainability - and who want their work to have real-world impact on open data infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-throughput Go services and data ingestion pipelines
• Build secure, well-documented APIs using standard authentication and authorization protocols
• Deploy, configure, and operate services in cloud and container environments
• Own database schema design, query optimization, and migration strategies
• Apply appropriate caching and messaging patterns to meet reliability and latency requirements
• Write clean, well-tested code - unit tests, integration tests, and contract tests where applicable
• Uphold strong source control practices : meaningful commits, disciplined branching, and thorough pull request reviews
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and shared developer tooling
• Participate in architecture reviews, technical planning, and cross-team design discussions
• Support and mentor engineers through code review and knowledge sharing

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years writing production-grade Go, with a solid grasp of concurrency patterns, idiomatic design, and performance characteristics
• Strong understanding of distributed systems : scalability, consistency trade-offs, and fault tolerance
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating containerized services in cloud environments (container orchestration, managed cloud platforms)
• Relational database design and optimization - schema modelling, indexing, and query analysis
• Familiarity with identity and access management standards (token-based auth, delegated authorization flows)
• Experience using in-memory data stores for caching, session state, or pub/sub messaging
• Disciplined approach to software quality : testing at multiple levels, static analysis, and clear code review feedback
• Comfortable working on Linux systems with containerization and infrastructure-as-code tooling
• Familiar with 12-factor app principles and the operational concerns of cloud-native services

Nice to Have

• Experience building or operating IoT data pipelines or time-series workloads
• Familiarity with message brokers or event streaming systems for asynchronous processing
• Observability practices : structured logging, metrics instrumentation, and distributed tracing
• Contributions to open-source projects or experience with open data / data exchange platforms
• Prior involvement in defining engineering standards, runbooks, or internal documentation