Netlify is hiring a
Backend Engineer (Go)

Summary

The job is for a Staff Engineer at Netlify, a remote-first company that aims to create a better experience for developers globally. The role involves developing and operating the content delivery network serving customer's sites, collaborating with team members, and working on various technical challenges. The ideal candidate should have experience in Golang, familiarity with technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Redis, and observability tools, and a passion for learning new technologies.

Requirements

• Experience developing production-level Golang
• An extensive history of delivering product features & deploying services with a high level of comfort iterating on a system while it is constantly serving significant amounts of traffic (100k - 1M rps)

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate the content delivery network serving our customer’s sites
• Elevate the work of the team and become a subject matter expert in an area that your team owns
• Establish strong async communication rhythms with your peers and leaders, practicing transparency and visibility in your progress against areas of focus
• Join the on-call rotation and help the team pay down technical debt and improve reliability
• Gain a more robust understanding of the needs of the product and become comfortable diagnosing and solving problems
• Have one-on-one's and pairing sessions with some of the people you’ll be working closely with and get to know your engineering peers across our product umbrella
• Extensively collaborate with engineering leadership to level up the team and continually improve the scalability and observability of the platform
• Make a meaningful impact on Netlify’s engineering practice and tooling
• Fortify relationships with cross-functional team members as well as broaden your connections across the organization

Preferred Qualifications

Some familiarity with and willingness to learn more about technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Redis, as well as observability tools like Datadog and Humio