Senior Go Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and manage Go services that power the core APIs and data access paths for TDX, utilizing both HTTP and gRPC.

• Take responsibility for service reliability, performance, and scalability as traffic and data volumes increase.

• Create resilient asynchronous processing for data-heavy workloads by leveraging queues and streams.

• Improve Datadog observability through structured logging, metrics, tracing, and health indicators.

• Develop and maintain shared Go packages and service patterns, ensuring versioning, documentation, and backward compatibility.

• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues while participating in on-call duties.

• Engage in code reviews, technical design conversations, and promote engineering best practices.

• Provide mentorship to engineers and elevate the technical standards throughout the organization.

• Contribute to best practices for AI-assisted software development and review as well as validate tool outputs.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of professional software engineering experience, including a minimum of 5 years in building and operating production services using Go.

• Strong expertise in Go concurrency, such as determining worker pool sizes and managing parallelism.

• Solid comprehension of distributed systems, handling partial failures, timeouts, retries with backoff and jitter, graceful degradation, and idempotency.

• Experience in building horizontally scalable services operating on auto-scaling infrastructure.

• Competence in measuring production latency and throughput, along with utilizing profiling and distributed tracing.

• Strong SQL and relational database capabilities, including interpreting query plans and analyzing database performance.

• Experience in designing and managing multi-tenant systems with suitable tenant isolation.

• Background in supporting production systems through on-call, debugging, testing, code reviews, and technical design.

• Extensive Unix/Linux experience, including terminal operations, shell scripting, and diagnosing running services.

• Familiarity with constructing service-to-service interfaces utilizing gRPC and Protocol Buffers.

• Proficient in message queues and streaming platforms.

• Production experience with Snowflake, MySQL, and Redis.

• Ability to read and analyze Java services and collaborate across service boundaries.

• Experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code in daily development, including verifying the resulting code.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work.

• Flexible work environment.

• Opportunities for ownership and continuous learning.

• Inclusive work environment.