Remote Go Backend Engineer for Drone Infrastructure

Rollbar, Inc.; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Airspace Link is building a backend‑first platform to safely integrate drones into national airspace. We design scalable Go services powering AirHub Portal, with Kubernetes and Azure in a distributed, remote‑first engineering culture.

Join a team delivering geospatial workflows, cloud‑native architectures, and high‑reliability operations, collaborating across Platform, Data, Product, and UAS experts to serve cities, agencies, and enterprises.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years of professional software engineering experience in production SaaS or cloud platforms.
• Strong experience developing backend services with Go (Golang).
• Experience designing and building RESTful and/or gRPC APIs.
• Experience developing distributed systems and cloud-native applications.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure or another major cloud platform (AWS/GCP).
• Strong SQL skills and PostgreSQL familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs powering AirHub Portal.
• Build cloud-native applications and distributed systems using Go, Kubernetes, and modern practices.
• Develop highly reliable services for drone operations, geospatial workflows, and customer-facing features.
• Take ownership of complex features from design through deployment and iteration.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Platform, Data, and UAS experts to align with customer needs.
• Maintain automated testing, improve observability, and participate in code reviews.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Backend design & APIs

Distributed systems

Cloud-native engineering

Collaborative teamwork

Tools

Kubernetes

Microsoft Azure

PostgreSQL

Kafka

CI/CD

REST & gRPC

Job description

Airspace Link is building a backend‑first platform to safely integrate drones into national airspace. We design scalable Go services powering AirHub Portal, with Kubernetes and Azure in a distributed, remote‑first engineering culture.

Join a team delivering geospatial workflows, cloud‑native architectures, and high‑reliability operations, collaborating across Platform, Data, Product, and UAS experts to serve cities, agencies, and enterprises.