Senior Backend Architect: SpiceDB-Powered APIs & Go

Biamp; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Biamp seeks a Senior Backend Engineer for a 3-month on-site contract to develop cloud services, APIs, and infrastructure for its global audiovisual conferencing solutions. Focus on identity and access control, with SpiceDB adoption to reflect customer structures.

The role involves designing and maintaining backend microservices in Go, implementing permission models, and performing zero-downtime migrations while coordinating with multiple engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of commercial software development including backend services and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong Go (Golang) proficiency and experience building microservices.
• Experience designing and building APIs (GraphQL preferred; REST/gRPC valuable).
• Hands-on experience with SpiceDB/OpenFGA or Zanzibar-style permissions.
• Experience in relational databases and SQL.
• Linux environment proficiency and shell scripting.
• Experience with agile development practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend microservices and APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) in Go.
• Implement fine-grained authorization using SpiceDB and related permission models.
• Plan zero-downtime migrations of existing customer access to new permission model.
• Build event-driven services using messaging systems like NATS, Kafka, or RabbitMQ.
• Maintain SQL database schemas, queries, and data migrations.
• Improve reliability, security, and performance of production services.
• Collaborate with Web, Embedded Software, QA, and Product teams; participate in code reviews.
• Document designs and processes in Confluence.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Backend development

APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)

SpiceDB / permission systems

Linux environments

SQL / relational databases

CI/CD / DevOps practices

Kubernetes / Docker

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Docker

Azure Kubernetes Services

Terraform

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Biamp seeks a Senior Backend Engineer for a 3-month on-site contract to develop cloud services, APIs, and infrastructure for its global audiovisual conferencing solutions. Focus on identity and access control, with SpiceDB adoption to reflect customer structures.

The role involves designing and maintaining backend microservices in Go, implementing permission models, and performing zero-downtime migrations while coordinating with multiple engineering teams.