Senior Go Backend Engineer — Distributed Systems Leader

HavocAI; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental and Vision Insurance (1

Life Insurance

401k matching

Unlimited PTO

Equity Package

Work/Home Office Stipend

Global Entry

16 Week Paid Parental Leave

Monthly Health and Wellness Stipend

Job summary

HavocAI is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to drive development of scalable, high-performance backend systems powering autonomous platforms. You will be hands-on in architecture and development as a senior individual contributor, designing and building highly concurrent services in Go and guiding architectural decisions.

You will work with frontend, platform, autonomy, and embedded teams to ensure reliability in real-world, mission-critical environments, while upholding security and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend or distributed systems experience.
• Strong Go expertise.
• Experience designing and operating highly available distributed systems.
• Experience with coordination primitives like etcd, Raft, or leader election.

Responsibilities

• Drive backend projects with technical ownership and architectural guidance.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable Go services and distributed systems.
• Optimize performance, reliability, and observability of backend services.
• Collaborate with frontend, platform, autonomy, and embedded teams to integrate services.
• Enforce secure development practices and production readiness.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

API design

Etcd/Raft

Security clearance

Tools

AWS

Job description

HavocAI is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to drive development of scalable, high-performance backend systems powering autonomous platforms. You will be hands-on in architecture and development as a senior individual contributor, designing and building highly concurrent services in Go and guiding architectural decisions.

You will work with frontend, platform, autonomy, and embedded teams to ensure reliability in real-world, mission-critical environments, while upholding security and