Senior Software Engineer (Enterprise Experience)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Design and build new features end to end, from technical design through production rollout.
• - Design and implement backend architecture changes that support Coder's long-term scalability goals.
• - Investigate and resolve scalability bottlenecks under production-like load, from database access patterns to concurrency handling in coderd.
• - Improve database migration safety and upgrade reliability through schema compatibility, background migrations, and safe rollback strategies.
• - Own the backend side of issues surfaced by Coder operators and administrators.
• - Document the design, implementation, and operational tradeoffs of the systems you build.
• - Participate in code reviews, RFC-style design discussions, and on-call rotations for the services you own.

Required Skills

• - 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant production experience with Go.
• - Deep understanding of Go's concurrency model, including goroutines, channels, the sync package, and debugging race conditions under real-world load.
• - Experience designing and operating relational databases in production, including schema design, migrations, and transactions.
• - Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• - Exceptional debugging and troubleshooting skills, with the persistence to drive complex problems to resolution.
• - A self-motivated, analytical engineer who enjoys tackling difficult technical challenges.
• - Bonus tacos if you have experience with infrastructure engineering.
• - Experience building or operating distributed systems at a meaningful scale.
• - Curiosity about the latest developer tooling.

Benefits

• - Offers Equity
• - Offers Bonus