Go Backend Engineer for Cloud Orchestration & APIs

Nebul; Leiden; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Nebul is building Europe’s sovereign AI cloud and is seeking a Golang Backend Software Engineer to design and deliver production-grade backend services powering Nexus, Nebul’s orchestration layer.

You’ll design and develop Go-based APIs and controllers, enabling orchestration of infrastructure and services. This role emphasizes scalable backend software, APIs, and event-driven workflows in a cloud-native environment.

Qualifications

• Strong Go software engineering experience.
• Experience designing and building backend services and APIs.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and software architecture.
• Experience with concurrency and event-driven processing.
• Experience with databases, queues and service-to-service communication.
• Understanding of API design, versioning and backward compatibility.
• Experience building observable, production-grade software.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native environments.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization and RBAC.
• Ownership mindset to turn complex requirements into clean abstractions.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services in Go.
• Develop REST and/or gRPC APIs.
• Build controllers and orchestration services for infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Design asynchronous workflows for long-running operations.
• Create abstractions over compute, Kubernetes, networking and storage infrastructure.
• Build reliable state-management and reconciliation mechanisms.
• Integrate with Nebul Platform, Infrastructure and Datacenter APIs.
• Implement authentication, authorization, RBAC and policy enforcement.
• Design services for resilience, observability and fault tolerance.
• Write tests and contribute to CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

REST / gRPC APIs

RBAC

Concurrency

Tools

OpenStack

PostgreSQL

Redis

CI/CD

Terraform

Job description

Nebul is building Europe’s sovereign AI cloud and is seeking a Golang Backend Software Engineer to design and deliver production-grade backend services powering Nexus, Nebul’s orchestration layer.

You’ll design and develop Go-based APIs and controllers, enabling orchestration of infrastructure and services. This role emphasizes scalable backend software, APIs, and event-driven workflows in a cloud-native environment.