Senior Go API Engineer - Remote, Observability & Scale

Somewhere; Philippines; Remote; PHP 37,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Somewhere is looking for a Senior Go API Engineer to own the reliability and observability of our API surface, including several Go services and Cloud Functions. You will drive on-call readiness, monitoring, and incident response in a distributed system.

You should have 5+ years operating production API/backend services, deep HTTP knowledge, MySQL experience, and strong Go fundamentals. This is a remote, full-time role with opportunities to influence architecture and tooling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years operating production API/backend services at scale.
• Deep HTTP fluency: semantics, status codes, caching headers.
• MySQL depth: indexing, EXPLAIN, transactions.
• CDN and cache semantics: Cache-Control, ETag, invalidation.
• Production monitoring, logging, and tracing across services.
• Comfort with AI-assisted development tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Operate our Go API services and Cloud Functions in production: deployments, monitoring, incident response, on-call rotation
• Audit and close gaps in monitoring and alerting across owned services - Correlate logs, metrics, and traces across service boundaries to debug intermittent, cross-service failures
• Establish and refine on-call runbooks and incident postmortems - Move fluidly between repos and functions as reliability priorities shift
• Engage substantively with Claude Auto Reviewer findings on PRs and others'
• Triage and resolve customer-impacting issues

Skills

Go

HTTP

Incident response

Monitoring

Distributed systems

Code reviews

Go concurrency

Docker

CI/CD

GCP

Tools

Docker

Cloud Run

Cloud Functions

Cloud SQL

GitHub Actions

GCP

Job description

Somewhere is looking for a Senior Go API Engineer to own the reliability and observability of our API surface, including several Go services and Cloud Functions. You will drive on-call readiness, monitoring, and incident response in a distributed system.

You should have 5+ years operating production API/backend services, deep HTTP knowledge, MySQL experience, and strong Go fundamentals. This is a remote, full-time role with opportunities to influence architecture and tooling.