Senior Go Engineer — Distributed Systems & Data Platform (Remote)

ipracujzdalnie.pl; Województwo pomorskie; On-site; PLN 517,000 - 775,000; Full time

Job summary

Our client is an international technology company seeking a Principal Go Engineer to join a distributed data platform team. You will own architecture, performance, reliability and development of core components, building scalable backend services in Go that run on Kubernetes in cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with architects and DevOps, and lead complex initiatives across teams with a focus on high availability, data pipelines, and event processing using

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of professional software development experience.
• Minimum 5 years of commercial Go programming experience.
• Experience in staff/lead roles such as Staff Engineer or Principal Engineer.
• Proven ownership of complex production systems.

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing scalable and fault‑tolerant backend services in Go.
• Building high‑performance data pipelines for ingesting and processing data.
• Defining service boundaries and data flows between components.
• Leading complex initiatives spanning multiple components or teams.
• Mentoring engineers and guiding technical decisions.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Kafka

REST API design

PostgreSQL

Go concurrency

Observability

Microservices

Docker

Kubernetes

English proficiency

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Helm

gRPC

Job description

Our client is an international technology company seeking a Principal Go Engineer to join a distributed data platform team. You will own architecture, performance, reliability and development of core components, building scalable backend services in Go that run on Kubernetes in cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with architects and DevOps, and lead complex initiatives across teams with a focus on high availability, data pipelines, and event processing using