Senior Backend Engineer - ClickPipes Platform

clickhouse; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare contributions

Stock options

Remote work flexibility

Home office allowance

Global offsites

Job summary

Hidden Jobs is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join a team building services for a cloud analytics platform that ingests data at petabyte scale. You will own the design and implementation of scalable distributed systems and contribute to architecture decisions to improve performance and reliability.

The role involves integrating streaming platforms and object storage, operating in a remote-friendly, globally distributed team, and participating in on-call rotations to maintain production

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience building and operating distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of Go and its ecosystem.
• Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems with concurrency and failure recovery.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider.
• Experience diagnosing production issues in distributed systems.
• Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly and collaborate across engineering and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve integrations with streaming platforms and object storage (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, S3, GCS, Azure).
• Continuously improve systems based on operational metrics, customer feedback, and evolving business requirements.
• Drive technical discussions and contribute to architectural decisions affecting platform scalability and resilience.
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure system reliability and respond to production incidents.

Skills

Go programming

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Communication

On-call experience

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

Pub/Sub

S3

GCS

Azure Blob Storage

Job description

Role overview

Senior backend engineer role on a team building the services that power large-scale data ingestion for a cloud analytics platform. The work happens at petabyte scale, solving challenges in distributed systems, fault tolerance, and high-throughput ingestion. You will help make these pipelines performant, reliable, and easy to operate, with broad ownership of technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve integrations with streaming platforms and object storage systems, including Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, S3, GCS, and Azure Blob Storage
• Continuously improve systems based on operational metrics, customer feedback, and evolving business requirements
• Drive technical discussions and contribute to architectural decisions affecting platform scalability and resilience
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure system reliability and respond to production incidents

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience building and operating distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of Go and its ecosystem
• Experience designing systems for scalability and fault tolerance, with understanding of concurrency, consistency, and failure recovery
• Understanding of cloud-native architecture and practical experience with at least one major cloud provider
• Experience diagnosing and resolving production issues in distributed systems
• Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly and collaborate across engineering and product teams

Nice to have

• Experience with data ingestion pipelines, streaming platforms, or object storage systems

Benefits and work setup

• Flexible, remote-friendly global work environment with team members across 25+ countries
• Employer contributions toward healthcare
• Equity through stock options granted to new team members
• Flexible time off (US) or generous entitlement in other countries
• USD $500 home office setup allowance for remote employees
• Global gatherings and company-wide offsites for in-person connection