Edge Platform Go Backend Engineer

telnyx54; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Telnyx is seeking an experienced backend software engineer to design and build Go services powering our serverless platform, deployment pipeline, and global control plane in Amsterdam. You will own backend and control plane software, APIs, and resource lifecycles for edge workloads, collaborating across teams to ensure reliability and a great developer experience.

You will work with Kubernetes and runtime infrastructure to diagnose latency and throughput issues, build scalable tooling, and

Qualifications

• Proficient in Go with strong backend development skills.
• Solid distributed systems fundamentals and production debugging experience.
• Experience designing APIs and resource models used by engineers.
• Experience with relational databases including schemas, transactions, migrations.
• Experience building asynchronous systems using queues or state machines.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and deploying workloads.
• Experience running highly available services and being on-call.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the Go services behind our serverless platform, function deployment pipeline, and global control plane.
• Own backend and control‑plane software, from customer‑facing APIs and resource lifecycles to services that deploy and manage workloads across our edge infrastructure.
• Make the platform great to use: clean APIs, a sharp CLI, predictable behaviour, and useful error messages. Developer experience is a feature, not an afterthought.
• Build reliable workflows for deployments, configuration, storage, and observability. Handle the retries, state, and failure cases that come with operations spanning multiple services and data centres.
• Work with Kubernetes and our runtime infrastructure through the control plane, and help diagnose latency, throughput, and reliability issues across the platform.
• Build tooling that helps us operate safely at scale. Participate in on‑call for the systems you build.

Skills

Go

Backend development

Distributed systems

API design

Kubernetes

On-call experience

PostgreSQL

Tools

Docker

PostgreSQL

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

NATS/JetStream

Knative

Dapr

Git

Job description

Telnyx is seeking an experienced backend software engineer to design and build Go services powering our serverless platform, deployment pipeline, and global control plane in Amsterdam. You will own backend and control plane software, APIs, and resource lifecycles for edge workloads, collaborating across teams to ensure reliability and a great developer experience.

You will work with Kubernetes and runtime infrastructure to diagnose latency and throughput issues, build scalable tooling, and