Senior Software Engineer, Production and Reliability Engineering

Furtherium; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Worldwide remote

Flexible Scrum approach

Mentoring opportunities

Job summary

Furtherium is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and improve scalable, reliable services with hands-on coding and architectural work. This worldwide remote role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, practical reliability engineering, and mentoring colleagues while shaping system design and operations across cloud platforms.

Strong communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in Go or a similar backend technology.
• Experience building scalable, reliable services.
• Practical knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps.
• Experience with cloud environments (GCP or similar).
• Strong communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build new services, and improve existing ones.
• Work across implementation details and broader software architecture.
• Turn ideas and technical needs from partner teams into features and tools.
• Explain proposed solutions clearly to technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Coach team members and help expand engineering knowledge.

Skills

Go

Scalability

Reliability engineering

DevOps

Communication

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GCP

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GCP

Job description

Role overview

Design and improve backend services with a focus on scalability and reliability. This senior engineering role combines hands-on software and architecture work with cross-functional collaboration, practical reliability engineering, and mentoring colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Design and build new services, and improve existing ones.
• Work across implementation details and broader software architecture.
• Turn ideas and technical needs from partner teams into features and tools.
• Explain proposed solutions clearly to technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Coach team members and help expand engineering knowledge.

Requirements

• Strong programming skills in Go or a similar backend technology.
• Understanding of how to build scalable, reliable services.
• Practical knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps.
• Experience working with cloud environments; GCP or a similar platform is relevant.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with continuous integration and delivery.
• Experience with containers, especially Docker and Kubernetes.
• Contributions to open-source projects or a portfolio of software work.
• Interest in metrics, measurement, and service reliability.

Benefits and work setup

• Full-time, worldwide remote role using a flexible Scrum approach.