Senior Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure (Go)

7Seventy; United States; Híbrido; USD 170.000 - 230.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Equity potential

Descripción de la vacante

7Seventy is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specialized in data infrastructure built with Go. This role is fully remote within the United States and requires overlap with Pacific Time.

You will design scalable backend systems and operate high-performance data infrastructure for large-scale applications. Responsibilities include scaling Go services, building mission-critical data infrastructure, and driving architecture decisions to ensure reliability and performance at scale across

Formación

• 5+ years of Go experience or similar backend development
• Experience building scalable backend systems with high throughput (1M+ OPS)
• Strong understanding of OS, networking, and storage concepts
• Relational databases: Postgres, MySQL, or SQLite
• Distributed data stores: Cassandra, Scylla, Redis, ClickHouse
• Search systems: Elasticsearch
• Able to work in a small, fast-moving team
• Excellent communication and independence

Responsabilidades

• Scale Go services to support hundreds of millions of users
• Design and build data infrastructure powering API traffic
• Architect systems using tens of TB RAM and thousands of CPU cores
• Maintain distributed backend services with high query throughput
• Optimize storage performance for NVMe systems
• Improve reliability, observability, and resilience
• Participate in architectural decisions and design reviews
• Continuously evaluate scalability and efficiency

Conocimientos

Go

Backend systems

Distributed systems

High throughput

Cassandra

Scylla

Redis

ClickHouse

Elasticsearch

Herramientas

PostgreSQL

MySQL

SQLite

Cassandra

ScyllaDB

Redis

Elasticsearch

Descripción del empleo

Senior Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure (Go)

Remote (United States)

Status: Full-Time

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote (U.S.-based). Overlap with Pacific Time required; proximity to Seattle is a plus.

Pay: $170,000 - $230,000 per year. Equity may be included as part of total compensation.

About the Role

This opportunity is for a senior-level backend engineer focused on building and scaling high-performance data infrastructure. You will design and operate distributed systems that power large-scale applications, handling millions of queries per second across modern bare-metal environments.

This role requires deep expertise in Go and large-scale backend systems. You will contribute to mission-critical services that operate across dense, high-capacity infrastructure, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability at extreme scale.

What You’ll Do

• Scale production Go services to support hundreds of millions of users
• Design and build mission-critical data infrastructure powering API traffic
• Architect systems capable of operating across tens of terabytes of RAM and thousands of CPU cores
• Develop and maintain distributed backend services handling high query throughput
• Optimize performance across storage layers, including high-capacity NVMe systems
• Collaborate with engineers to improve reliability, observability, and system resilience
• Participate in design discussions and contribute to architectural decisions
• Continuously evaluate and improve infrastructure scalability and efficiency

Qualifications

• Strong foundational programming and software engineering skills
• Extensive professional experience with Go (5+ years preferred)
• Experience building and operating scalable backend systems handling high throughput (1M+ operations per second)
• Deep understanding of operating systems, networking, and storage systems
• Significant experience with relational databases such as Postgres, MySQL, or SQLite
• Experience with distributed data stores such as Cassandra, Scylla, Redis, or ClickHouse
• Experience working with search systems such as Elasticsearch
• Ability to thrive in a small, fast-moving engineering team
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently

Preferred Experience

• Experience building infrastructure for large-scale social or consumer applications
• Experience working in high-density bare-metal environments
• Familiarity with protocol-driven or federated systems architectures
• Fully remote team with required overlap with Pacific Time working hours
• Occasional travel or on-site interview components may apply
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Competitive base salary with potential equity participation