Senior Go Platform Engineer - Production Database Services

UKG; Lowell (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG is hiring a Senior Database Platform Engineer to own and operate critical production database services across on‑premises and cloud on a hybrid UKG environment. The role focuses on Go (Golang) development and platform ownership for databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, and MySQL, with emphasis on reliability and scale.

You will design infrastructure, implement IaC, support incidents, and collaborate across teams to improve service delivery, observability, and disaster

Qualifications

• 9+ years of software engineering or platform engineering experience
• 5+ years of hands‑on production Go (Golang) development
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Proven track record building end‑to‑end platform solutions
• Experience supporting mission‑critical production services

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain production Go code for database services
• Design features to improve reliability across hybrid infra
• Build infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines
• Monitor health, incidents, and on‑call participation
• Mentor team members and document architecture decisions

Skills

Go (Golang)

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

RabbitMQ

MySQL

Prometheus

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

Kustomize

Job description

UKG is hiring a Senior Database Platform Engineer to own and operate critical production database services across on‑premises and cloud on a hybrid UKG environment. The role focuses on Go (Golang) development and platform ownership for databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, and MySQL, with emphasis on reliability and scale.

You will design infrastructure, implement IaC, support incidents, and collaborate across teams to improve service delivery, observability, and disaster