Member of Technical Staff (Golang Engineer, Search)
Perplexity9 months ago
Berlin, Germany or London, United KingdomMid Level / Senior
H1B Sponsor
Responsibilities
- Build highly scalable, distributed backend services using Golang.
- Design, develop, and maintain search infrastructure that supports exponential traffic growth.
- Engineer cloud-native solutions, optimizing for horizontal scale and rapid failover.
- Implement robust monitoring, autoscaling, and incident recovery strategies.
- Collaborate with product, infra, and devops teams to maximize throughput and resilience.
- Drive improvements in CI/CD, automation, and operational excellence for backend systems.
- Mentor peers and champion scalable design principles across the organization.
Requirements
- Significant experience developing scalable Golang services for production environments.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).
- Proven track record implementing systems that scale to millions of users.
- Strong background in Linux performance tuning, monitoring, and debugging.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and automation.
- Ability to proactively tackle scaling challenges—anticipating bottlenecks before they arise.
- Passion for building backend solutions that power real-time, reliable search.