Senior Backend Software Engineer - Remote

Overview

Engineers at Weave build features and maintain back-end services using Go (GoLang) microservices, while collaborating with other teams to coordinate work efforts. They are responsible for the long-term quality of the code they write and maintain, crafting reliable web services that are deployed with containers on Kubernetes. As integral members of an autonomous, cross-functional team, engineers contribute wherever needed and thrive in a high-trust environment. At Weave, engineers truly enjoy great days, almost every day!

In Short

• 3+ years of experience with back-end languages, e.g. Go, Java, Ruby, Python, C#, etc. (Go is a major plus)
• Experience building Data Platform and Products at scale
• Willing to learn a new and exciting language - Go
• Willing to participate in an on-call rotation with the rest of your team
• Experience working with distributed systems, and inter-service communication protocols and APIs, e.g ReST, protobufs/gRPC, Kafka, NSQ, etc.
• Experience with building streaming applications on top of Kafka Streams/Flink
• Experience working with relational databases and SQL
• Develop and review design, functional, technical, and/or user documentation, as needed.
• Contribute to the design, implementation, and architecture of new or re-engineered software.
• Develop, test, and integrate code for new or existing software of significant complexity.

Requirements

• Deploying into a public cloud service (especially GCP)
• Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Experience with Change Data Capture from a relational database
• Experience with protobufs/gRPC
• Experience with deployments using CI/CD, Jenkins, etc.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and building scalable/redundant service
• Experience with pipeline monitoring, metrics, alerting, log aggregation, and tracing
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, etc

Benefits

• Weave is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals are valued and supported.
• We welcome anyone who is hungry to learn, problem-solve and progress regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
• If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.