Senior Go Platform Engineer - Distributed Systems & AWS

Specialized Bicycle Components; Morgan Hill (CA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plan options

HSA contributions

Dental & Vision plans

401(k) matching

Life & Disability Insurance

Mental health support

Generous leave

Career development funds

Wellness reimbursement

Pro-Deal discounts

Job summary

Specialized Bicycle Components is seeking a Senior Fullstack Platform Go Engineer to help build scalable backend services and event-driven systems within the Global Tech team. You will work on integration platforms across multiple engineering teams to enable reliable data exchange and interoperable systems.

The ideal candidate is fluent in Go or a similar statically-typed language, comfortable deploying to AWS, and capable of explaining complex designs to technical and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems design and implementation.
• Strong programming skills in Go or a statically-typed language.
• Experience deploying services to AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, ECS).
• Solid REST API design and web fundamentals.
• Knowledge of containers and Docker usage.
• Strong data modeling and RDBMS experience.
• Ability to communicate technical designs to technical/business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design distributed systems and event-driven components for scalable platforms.
• Contribute to an event system enabling loose coupling across services.
• Build tooling to support frontline staff and to maintain product registration systems.
• Enhance and support integrations with POS systems for omni-channel strategy.
• Maintain and iterate CI/CD pipelines for frequent robust deployments.
• Collaborate with teammates to identify best-fit technical solutions.
• Analyze root causes and propose simple, effective solutions.

Skills

Golang

Java

C++

Evented systems

REST API design

AWS

Docker

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

GitHub Actions

Terraform

HTMX

Git

Confluence

JIRA

Docker

Job description

Specialized Bicycle Components is seeking a Senior Fullstack Platform Go Engineer to help build scalable backend services and event-driven systems within the Global Tech team. You will work on integration platforms across multiple engineering teams to enable reliable data exchange and interoperable systems.

The ideal candidate is fluent in Go or a similar statically-typed language, comfortable deploying to AWS, and capable of explaining complex designs to technical and business stakeholders.