Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Blue Sky Group1 day ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$179k - $242k/yr
Responsibilities
- Scale Go production services to support hundreds of millions of users.
- Build and maintain mission-critical data infrastructure powering the AT Protocol ecosystem.
- Build services operating across tens of terabytes of RAM, thousands of CPU cores, and petabytes of NVMe storage.
- Own and operate production services on dense bare-metal servers in Bluesky’s racks.
Requirements
- Strong fundamental programming and software engineering skills.
- 3+ years of experience with Go.
- Experience building scalable backend systems handling 1M+ operations per second.
- Familiarity with the upper limits of operating systems, networks, and storage.
- Significant experience with database systems such as Postgres, MySQL, or SQLite.
- Some experience with data stores such as Scylla, Cassandra, Redis, or ClickHouse.
- Strong ownership of production services and interest in working on a small, fast-moving team.
- Read the AT Protocol documentation and want to contribute.
- Previous experience with social or Internet infrastructure at large scale is preferred.
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement with significant overlap required with US/Pacific working hours.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance for full-time roles.
- Equity is considered as part of the total compensation package.
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About Blue Sky Group
Blue Sky Group is a Dutch pension administrator and asset manager serving pension funds and their participants. It provides outsourced pension administration, fiduciary/asset management, board support, communications, and actuarial and legal pension advice on a fee-for-service basis. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Amstelveen, it is part of Achmea and has administered funds such as the KLM pension schemes.