Go Backend Engineer for Edge Platform & Deployments

telnyx54; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

telnyx54 is seeking a Software Engineer focused on edge infrastructure to build backend services for a serverless platform, its function deployment pipeline, and a global control plane. You will design APIs, manage resource lifecycles, and ensure platform reliability across edge locations.

The role emphasizes developer experience, scalable Go services, and on-call readiness, with Kubernetes-based runtime infrastructure and an emphasis on latency, availability, and observability.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of backend development experience.
• Proficiency in Go, or strong experience in Rust, Java, or C++ and willingness to use Go.
• Understanding of distributed systems, including production troubleshooting, retries, partial failures, and idempotency.
• Experience designing APIs and resource models for other engineers to use.
• Relational database experience, including schema design, transactions, and migrations.
• Experience with asynchronous patterns such as queues, background jobs, or state machines.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and operating highly available services, including on-call work.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Go services for the platform control plane and deployment pipeline.
• Build customer-facing APIs and backend systems that create, update, and manage deployed resources.
• Improve developer experience through a usable command-line interface, consistent behavior, and actionable errors.
• Implement reliable deployment, configuration, storage, and observability workflows, including retries and failure recovery across services and data centers.
• Work with Kubernetes-based runtime infrastructure and investigate performance, latency, and availability problems.
• Create operational tooling and take part in on-call support for owned systems.

Skills

Backend dev

Go language

Distributed systems

API design

On-call

Troubleshooting

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

telnyx54 is seeking a Software Engineer focused on edge infrastructure to build backend services for a serverless platform, its function deployment pipeline, and a global control plane. You will design APIs, manage resource lifecycles, and ensure platform reliability across edge locations.

The role emphasizes developer experience, scalable Go services, and on-call readiness, with Kubernetes-based runtime infrastructure and an emphasis on latency, availability, and observability.