Senior Golang Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Develop, refactor and maintain GraphQL Go Tools' (Router) open-source code base in Golang (low GC code)
• - Work closely with your engineering team mates on new Router capabilities (e.g. Open Federation, new data sources)
• - Focus on performance, security and stability of the Router
• - Review Router telemetry to identify areas of improvement
• - Run internal penetration tests of the Router
• - Troubleshoot Router issues, potentially together with our customers' engineers
• - Analyze and accept up open-source contributions on Github

Required Skills

• - Senior level of proven Golang development experience in a leading / ownership role (must have)
• - Self-starter with a clear sense of priorities - no hand-holding needed
• - Experience in working with ASTs, AST transformations etc.
• - Experience in writing performant and low GC code in Golang, and knowledge of how to benchmark Go code
• - Experience with GraphQL, API Gateways, Proxies, and Networking in general is a plus
• - Experience with OpenAPI, SOAP, gRPC, GraphQL, Apollo Federation is a plus
• - Open-source contributions are a benefit, too
• - Excellent communicator (important for a remote team) in English
• - Willing and able to travel occasionally to meet the team in person (at least twice a year) or join working meetings.
• - Able to work within the CET time zone.

Benefits

• - Work from wherever you thrive—we’re fully remote and globally distributed.
• - Pick your preferred work hardware
• - Discretionary PTO: take the time you need to recharge
• - Competitive compensation
• - Depending on location, we offer healthcare benefits according to local standards
• - Team retreats across the globe