Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join DNSFilter, a rapidly growing network security company, as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Go development. You will be a key member of the engineering team, building and maintaining applications, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and optimizing software for performance and efficiency. This is a full-time, remote role open to candidates in the US and Canada, requiring 5+ years of Go development experience and expertise in building highly resilient distributed systems. DNSFilter offers a comprehensive benefits package including remote work, flexible hours, paid time off, health insurance, retirement benefits, and opportunities for professional growth. We encourage applications from diverse backgrounds.

Requirements

• 5+ years of recent experience as a Software Engineer developing and maintaining applications in Go
• Experience working at a fast-paced hypergrowth SaaS company
• Developed and maintained robust and scalable software solutions using the Go programming language, focusing on performance and reliability
• Strong experience and understanding of building highly resilient distributed systems and ensuring they have at least 5 9s uptime
• Experience working with the open telemetry stack, including Prometheus
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals and beyond (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S)
• Experience using Git or other code versioning tools
• Knowledge and experience in all aspects of SDLC
• Working knowledge of AWS and EKS
• Experience working remotely under minimal supervision
• Passion for product quality and attention to details
• A strong commitment to collaborative work in a remote environment
• The ability to keep work hours that overlap with 8 am - 12 pm EST timezone, M-F

Responsibilities

• Be a key member of the Engineering team
• Build, modify and support applications implemented using languages such as Go & Shell
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Contribute to the improvement of the development and deployment processes, ensuring that we continuously evolve to be better
• Demonstrate strong ownership of your projects to their delivery
• Optimize software applications for maximum performance and efficiency, taking advantage of Go's concurrency capabilities, focusing on scalability and reliability

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of other programming languages
• Knowledge of continuous integration systems, including GitHub workflows and Makefiles
• Experience with Kafka, Redis, and Relational databases

Benefits

• A 100% work-from-home position with a company that values and fosters personal and professional growth
• Pathway to promotion to additional organizational positions and responsibilities based upon results and performance - not just time in the chair.  You help us grow, we will help you grow
• Passionate and intelligent colleagues who work hard and have a good time doing it
• Flexible Fridays
• Paid company-wide week off at the end of each year
• Flexible Vacation policy
• Awesome company swag
• Home office buildout allowance
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits for US, UK, and Canada based employees
• Full short-term disability and life benefits; available long-term disability
• Retirement savings account options with vested company matching for qualifying employees
• In-person annual gatherings. Last time we all spent a week on a beach in Cancun!
• DNSFilter is a pay for performance organization, which means there is the opportunity to advance your compensation with performance over time