Senior Backend Platform Engineer - Golang & APIs

Alkira Australia; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Alkira, a Network Infrastructure as a Service (NIaaS) platform provider, seeks a Senior Platform Services Software Engineer to design and build core platform constructs used by engineering teams. This role focuses on backend services, APIs, and tooling rather than customer-facing features.

You will own complex projects, influence architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while improving scalability, reliability, and performance across the platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production-scale applications and services.
• Strong proficiency in Golang with experience developing production-quality backend systems.
• Experience designing and building APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Strong experience with Linux development environments, troubleshooting, and system-level debugging.
• Experience designing interfaces that other engineers consume, with good ergonomics, stability, and documentation.
• Experience developing software for cloud environments, including GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Strong technical judgment, problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and platform capabilities using Golang.
• Build cloud-native microservices and distributed primitives consumed by other engineering teams, over gRPC and Protobuf.
• Build and maintain the platform tooling other teams are using and treat their ergonomics as part of the product.
• Own complex features from design through implementation, deployment, and production support.
• Contribute to architectural decisions that improve scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability across every team depending on the platform.
• Diagnose and resolve complex software issues across Linux-based development and production environments.
• Turn recurring patterns across teams into shared capability rather than repeated one-off support.
• Mentor engineers through code review and technical guidance, and contribute to development standards, automated testing, and security review of Platform-owned services.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for the services you own.

Skills

Golang

API design

Distributed systems

Linux

Cloud platforms

gRPC

Protobuf

Kubernetes

Code review

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

SDKs

CLIs

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Alkira, a Network Infrastructure as a Service (NIaaS) platform provider, seeks a Senior Platform Services Software Engineer to design and build core platform constructs used by engineering teams. This role focuses on backend services, APIs, and tooling rather than customer-facing features.

You will own complex projects, influence architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while improving scalability, reliability, and performance across the platform.