Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering team. In this role, you will act as a senior Individual Contributor (IC) and module lead, providing technical guidance and mentoring a small pod of 2-3 engineers. You will design low-to-medium complexity features, consistently deliver high-quality code, and help ensure your team stays on track. The ideal candidate has deep experience in building robust microservices with Golang, managing cloud-scale data, orchestrating workflows with Temporal, and implementing proactive SRE observability principles. Our engineering is where high-quality professional engineering meets individual impact. Our team creates products are built on a mature, cloud-native event-driven microservices architecture hosted in AWS.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong proficiency and hands-on experience in Golang for backend system development.
- Extensive experience with Microservices development, distributed systems, clean API design, and event-driven patterns.
- Direct experience working with modern high-performance cloud databases, specifically Snowflake (data warehousing) and DynamoDB (NoSQL), Cassandra.
- Solid understanding of SRE principles, setting up telemetry/observability, and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
- Great communication skills
- BS in Computer Science, or a related field
- Comprehensive experience with an object-oriented programming language and techniques
- Comprehensive understanding of Java Frameworks
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AWS
- Hands-on experience building highly resilient, stateful microservices using Temporal or similar orchestration frameworks.
- Experience with Continuous Delivery
- Experience working on a Big Data/Machine Learning product
- Experience instrumenting code for gathering production performance metrics
Responsibilities
- Deliver efficient, maintainable, robust GO based microservices.
- Produce designs and rough estimates, and implement features based on product requirements.
- Collaborate with peers on designs, code reviews, and testing.
- Produce unit and end-to-end tests to improve code quality and maximize code coverage for new and existing features.
- Collaborate closely with engineering leadership to continuously refine and improve the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.
- Actively participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback.
- Deepen understanding of the product roadmap and user pain points.
- Identify one area of technical debt or process inefficiency to improve.
- Take lead on a larger epic or complex technical feature from design to deployment.
- Propose and document an architectural improvement or tooling upgrade (via an RFC/design doc).
- Begin mentoring junior engineers on the team.
- Join the on-call rotation and handle incidents confidently.
Benefits
- Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability
- Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
- Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children
- Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account
- Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching
- Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy
- Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually
- Sick leave
- Parental support: Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors
- Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
- SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission
- Potential eligibility for equity participation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
