Senior Go Platform Engineer - Production DB & Cloud

UKG; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG is seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer with strong Go skills to deliver and operate critical production database services across on‑premises and cloud infrastructure. You will own the infrastructure, automation, and operations of multiple database platforms and thrive in a fast‑paced production environment.

You will design and implement automation, manage provisioning, and contribute to high‑availability and disaster recovery across hybrid environments, with on‑call responsibilities

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain infrastructure and automation to deliver critical production database services across on-premises and cloud platforms
• Build solutions for database provisioning, configuration, lifecycle management, and self‑service enablement at scale
• Implement infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform, Helm) to automate service delivery across hybrid environments
• Develop automation for certificate management, version upgrades, platform migrations, and operational tasks
• Respond to and resolve P1/P2 incidents across all critical production database platforms in both environments
• Troubleshoot service failures, provisioning errors, replication issues, and connectivity problems in hybrid infrastructure
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability improvements to prevent and resolve issues
• Participate in on‑call rotation to support mission‑critical database services
• Own one or more critical production database service areas to ensure high reliability and availability
• Lead platform improvements including high‑availability implementations and disaster recovery enhancements
• Ensure seamless integration and support for critical database services at scale
• Continuously optimize service delivery and reliability across all environments

Skills

Go (Golang)

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Docker

GCP

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

RabbitMQ

Observability (Prometheus/Grafana)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kustomize

Docker

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Vault

cert-manager

Job description

UKG is seeking a Senior Database Platform Engineer with strong Go skills to deliver and operate critical production database services across on‑premises and cloud infrastructure. You will own the infrastructure, automation, and operations of multiple database platforms and thrive in a fast‑paced production environment.

You will design and implement automation, manage provisioning, and contribute to high‑availability and disaster recovery across hybrid environments, with on‑call responsibilities