Remote

Backend (Go) Engineer

Responsibilities
Benefits
Requirements
Nice-to-haves

Flanksource is on a mission to revolutionise incident response and collaboration between application, infrastructure, cloud, and vendor teams, eliminating painful and frustrating feedback loops. With our flagship product, Mission Control, we provide an application-focused view that aggregates health, configuration, change, and logs, enabling teams to communicate objectively and navigate the system context with ease.

Responsibilities

  • Develop features and improvements to the open-source flanksource product suite in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
  • Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
  • Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
  • Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
  • Recognise impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions
  • Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.

Benefits:

  • Remote first culture - work from anywhere in the world.
  • Flexible working hours - Choose both when and how much you work
  • Paid contribution to open-source projects in and around the kubernetes eco-system.
  • Annual development budget to spend on conferences, books, courses, etc..

Requirements

  • Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms
  • Experience working with a remote team
  • Some SQL Experience (Ideally PostgresSQL)
  • Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
  • Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organisational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
  • Comfort working in a highly agile, iterative software development process
  • Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organisational skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organisation
  • Share our values, and work in accordance with those values


Nice-to-haves

  • Some NoSQL Experience (Ideally Elasticsearch or Mongo)
  • Some Time Series DB Experience (Ideally Prometheus or TimescaleDB)
  • Product company experience
  • Enterprise software company experience
  • Developer platform/tool industry experience
  • Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team
  • Computer science education or equivalent experience
  • Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools
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