Senior Backend Engineer (Go) for Enterprise Scale

Coder; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Coder is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build scalable, production-grade systems for Enterprise users. You will own backend design, scalability improvements, and reliable upgrades for air-gapped and regulated environments.

You will collaborate with backend, platform, and QA engineers to ship robust services, improve observability, and participate in RFC-style design reviews and on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including Go production experience.
• Deep understanding of Go's concurrency model, including goroutines, channels, the sync package, and debugging race conditions under real-world load.
• Experience designing and operating relational databases in production, including schema design, migrations, and transactions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Exceptional debugging and troubleshooting skills, with the persistence to drive complex problems to resolution.
• A self-motivated, analytical engineer who enjoys tackling difficult technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Design and build new features end to end, from technical design through production rollout.
• Design and implement backend architecture changes that support Coder's long-term scalability goals.
• Investigate and resolve scalability bottlenecks under production-like load, from database access patterns to concurrency handling in coderd.
• Improve database migration safety and upgrade reliability through schema compatibility, background migrations, and safe rollback strategies.
• Own the backend side of issues surfaced by Coder operators and administrators.
• Document the design, implementation, and operational tradeoffs of the systems you build.
• Participate in code reviews, RFC-style design discussions, and on-call rotations for the services you own.

Skills

Go

Relational databases

Debugging

Communication

Go concurrency

Tools

Postgres

GCP

Kubernetes

gRPC

Prometheus

Grafana

GitHub Actions

Job description

Coder is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build scalable, production-grade systems for Enterprise users. You will own backend design, scalability improvements, and reliable upgrades for air-gapped and regulated environments.

You will collaborate with backend, platform, and QA engineers to ship robust services, improve observability, and participate in RFC-style design reviews and on-call rotations.