Staff Backend Engineer at Netlify

What You’ll Do:

Develop and operate the content delivery network serving our customer’s sites
Elevate the work of the team and become a subject matter expert in an area that your team owns
Establish strong async communication rhythms with your peers and leaders, practicing transparency and visibility in your progress against areas of focus
Join the on-call rotation and help the team pay down technical debt and improve reliability
Gain a more robust understanding of the needs of the product and become comfortable diagnosing and solving problems
Have one-on-one’s and pairing sessions with some of the people you’ll be working closely with and get to know your engineering peers across our product umbrella.
Extensively collaborate with engineering leadership to level up the team and continually improve the scalability and observability of the platform
Make a meaningful impact on Netlify’s engineering practice and tooling
Fortify relationships with cross-functional team members as well as broaden your connections across the organization
What You’ll Bring:

Experience developing production-level Golang.
An extensive history of delivering product features & deploying services with a high level of comfort iterating on a system while it is constantly serving significant amounts of traffic (100k – 1M rps). Our system is always on with demanding availability and throughput challenges.
Some familiarity with and willingness to learn more about technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Redis, as well as observability tools like Datadog and Humio
Curiosity and openness to learning new technologies and best practices
Passion for working in a collaborative environment, where you enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise working across distributed locations around the world
The ability to thrive in an environment where experimentation and failure are celebrated