Senior Engineer – Core Services and Libraries

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Australia.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain shared libraries that serve as essential tools for engineers throughout the organization, facilitating data access, messaging, service communication, observability, and resilience.

• Design APIs that are widely adopted—your interfaces should be compelling enough for teams to prefer them over creating their own; this entails thoughtful defaults, clear abstractions, backward compatibility, and comprehensive documentation.

• Create multi-cloud abstractions that enable services to operate seamlessly across various cloud providers and on-premise environments without vendor-specific coding.

• Design and implement resilience patterns—such as retries, circuit breakers, load shedding, and graceful degradation—as reusable components that become the standard for all services.

• Develop platform capabilities including feature management, traffic control, disaster recovery, and sharding as modular libraries.

• Take responsibility for the security of shared dependencies—keeping foundational libraries updated, addressing vulnerabilities, and delivering secure defaults.

• Engage in architectural governance—propose, review, and guide RFCs that define the direction of the services ecosystem.

• Act as an advocate and consultant—serve as a trusted advisor to engineering teams utilizing shared libraries; assist them in making informed architectural decisions, resolving integration challenges, and relaying their requirements back to the platform.

• Collaborate with Data Services, Infrastructure, SRE, and Observability teams—your libraries are built atop their platforms; establish strong working relationships to ensure shared libraries remain aligned with operational realities.

• Maintain and operate what you create—participate in on-call rotations, manage production triage, and leverage operational insights to enhance the libraries.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Go—experience in building production libraries or frameworks, or extensive knowledge in designing APIs and abstractions utilized by other engineering teams.

• In-depth understanding of distributed systems—hands-on experience with message brokers, data stores, service communication frameworks, and the failure modes associated with distributed architectures.

• Sensitivity to library and API design—you recognize the importance of backward compatibility, versioning, migration paths, and what constitutes an API that developers are eager to use.

• Experience in cloud infrastructure—substantial experience with at least one major cloud provider, ideally including multi-region or multi-cloud implementations.

• Operational maturity—proven track record in ensuring production reliability for systems you have developed, managing incidents under pressure, and translating those experiences into improvements.

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience, with significant involvement in platform, infrastructure, or developer tools.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity awards, positioning us as a market leader.

• Comprehensive wellness programs that focus on physical and mental health.

• Generous vacation and holiday policies to allow for ample recharging.

• Paid parental and adoption leave for supportive family planning.

• Opportunities for professional development available to all employees, regardless of position or level.

• Employee Networks, community neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to foster connections.

• A vibrant office culture complete with world-class amenities.

• Great Place to Work Certified™ globally.