Senior AI-Native Backend Engineer (Go) – Remote

CircleCI Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Remote; CAD 157,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid time off

Mental health support

Benefits covering employees up to 100%

Job summary

CircleCI Inc. is actively seeking an experienced backend engineer to advance AI-native data platforms. You will own ingestion, storage, and analytics pipelines, and work to scale ClickHouse-backed storage while preserving fast, reliable access for product teams and customers.

You will lead design discussions, ensure observability, and mentor others as CircleCI continues to push the boundaries of AI-assisted software delivery.

Qualifications

• AI-native engineering practices and practical AI tooling experience.
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• Hands-on data systems experience including ingestion, streaming, or analytics.
• Experience with a columnar store like ClickHouse.
• Strong Go backend skills and API design.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-native systems as the default approach, not a boost.
• Shape data storage at scale; own ClickHouse storage schema.
• Create and maintain robust data ingestion pipelines from event streams and workflows.
• Serve data to product teams and customers with fast, reliable access.
• Guide architectural choices and data domain migrations.
• Champion observability using tools like Honeycomb, Datadog, and Rollbar.
• Keep projects moving from design to production with speed.

Skills

AI-native engineering

Hands-on data experience

Go backend

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Shipping against users

Tools

ClickHouse

Temporal

Honeycomb

Datadog

Rollbar

React

TypeScript

Job description

CircleCI Inc. is actively seeking an experienced backend engineer to advance AI-native data platforms. You will own ingestion, storage, and analytics pipelines, and work to scale ClickHouse-backed storage while preserving fast, reliable access for product teams and customers.

You will lead design discussions, ensure observability, and mentor others as CircleCI continues to push the boundaries of AI-assisted software delivery.