Senior Go Platform Engineer - Scalable Distributed Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k) matching

Life & disability insurance

Parental leave

Career development

Wellness reimbursement

Pro-deals

Generous PTO

Baby bike

Job summary

Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc. in Morgan Hill, California, seeks a Senior Fullstack Platform Go Engineer to build scalable backend services, event-driven systems, and shared platform capabilities for digital products and internal functions.

The role emphasizes Go/Bachelor-level experience, AWS deployment, data modeling, and strong collaboration across teams to deliver reliable data exchange and system interoperability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience or a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or comparable subject area)
• 4+ years of proven experience creating technical specifications / designs from business requirements
• 2+ years working with Golang or Java or C++
• 2+ years working with PostgreSQL or MySQL (via SQL, not ORM)
• Experience of working on at-scale distributed systems
• Previous use of Github Actions and Terraform
• Server side rendered HTML, plain CSS, and minimal JavaScript
• Previous use of HTMX
• Comfortable with source code control and versioning tools (Git preferred)
• Experience with GitHub, Atlassian Confluence, JIRA, JIRA Service Desk, Slack, Dropbox and other collaboration tools

Responsibilities

• Design distributed systems built from iteratively-shipped components
• Contribute to an event system which enables loose coupling across services
• Build simple tools to aid our frontline support staff
• Maintain a product registration system
• Continue to enhance and support our integrations with Point of Sale systems to serve our omni-channel strategy
• Manage a clean CI/CD pipeline to deliver robust changes frequently
• Design best-fit technical solutions in collaboration with teammates
• Identify and understand root causes of existing problems and propose creative and innovative solutions

Skills

Golang

Java

C++

Event-driven

REST API design

Web fundamentals

AWS services

Docker

Data modeling

Observability

Communication

Team collaboration

Production code

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

GitHub Actions

Terraform

HTMX

Git

Job description

Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc. in Morgan Hill, California, seeks a Senior Fullstack Platform Go Engineer to build scalable backend services, event-driven systems, and shared platform capabilities for digital products and internal functions.

The role emphasizes Go/Bachelor-level experience, AWS deployment, data modeling, and strong collaboration across teams to deliver reliable data exchange and system interoperability.