Backend Systems Engineer, Real-Time Data Platform (Golang)

SupportFinity™; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% medical, dental & vision coverage

Flexible PTO

Stock options

Job summary

Formal is a data security platform building scalable backend systems to understand and control data in real time. We are hiring engineers who own projects from inception to production, with a stack including Golang, Kafka, and cloud-native technologies.

You will design and develop high-performance data platforms, improve reliability, and lead initiatives that impact the company’s growth while collaborating closely with the engineering team.

Qualifications

• Experience building data-intensive software platforms.
• Value of code simplicity and performance.
• Strong knowledge of Golang and its ecosystem.
• Experience with streaming data processing frameworks such as Kafka and Google Pub/Sub.
• Experience with containers and infrastructure as code (Terraform).

Responsibilities

• Design and develop a high performance data platform that can handle large volumes of data in real-time.
• Build new product features from start to finish through to research, implementation, and maintenance.
• Help improve performance and reliability of new and existing features.
• Lead any initiative you think may have a strong impact on Formal.
• Design scalable services as Formal grows and processes more traffic.

Skills

Golang

Data-intensive systems

Streaming data processing

Distributed systems

Production debugging

Containerization

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Temporal

Postgres

Job description

Formal is a data security platform building scalable backend systems to understand and control data in real time. We are hiring engineers who own projects from inception to production, with a stack including Golang, Kafka, and cloud-native technologies.

You will design and develop high-performance data platforms, improve reliability, and lead initiatives that impact the company’s growth while collaborating closely with the engineering team.