Senior Go Engineer - Realm
Golang

Senior Go Engineer

Golang

Salary

Up to £120k / €140k

Location

Remote - EU

Type

Full Time

SENIOR GO ENGINEER | UP TO £120,000 / €140,000 | REMOTE (EU)

This is an opportunity to join an early-stage, fast-growing software company leading innovation in cloud-native data services. As a Senior Go Engineer, you’ll design and implement distributed control plane features, tackling complex consensus challenges while helping developers build scalable, stateful applications in Kubernetes.

📍 LOCATION:

Remote (EU only)

💡 ABOUT THE ROLE:

You will play a key role in enhancing a distributed control plane built in Go that manages volume placement, node health, and Kubernetes integration. This hands-on role involves designing and implementing new features, ensuring scalability and reliability, and contributing to one of the most challenging technical domains in the cloud-native space.

💼 WHAT YOU’LL DO AS A SENIOR GO ENGINEER:

  • Design and develop new product features in Go
  • Integrate features with data plane and Kubernetes APIs
  • Build, test, and maintain systems in standalone and Kubernetes environments
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable solutions
  • Research tools and libraries to improve development practices

💻 TECH STACK:

  • Go (Golang) as the primary language
  • Kubernetes and cloud-native integration APIs
  • Distributed systems and consensus protocols
  • RESTful APIs, gRPC, and protobuf
  • Linux-based development environment
  • Messaging systems, key-value stores, and microservices architectures
  • OpenAPI specifications

🔎 WHO YOU ARE:

  • Experienced software engineer with strong Golang expertise
  • Skilled in writing clean, tested, and maintainable code
  • Knowledgeable in distributed systems and parallel programming concepts
  • Familiar with Kubernetes, cloud-native tools, and modern architectures
  • Strong collaborator with a desire to learn and grow in a fast-paced team
  • Bonus: experience with gRPC, protobuf, and web development

💰 COMPENSATION & BENEFITS:

  • Salary up to £120,000 / €140,000 per year
  • Fully remote within the EU
  • Work with a highly accomplished, innovation-driven team
  • Opportunity to shape core distributed systems in an early-stage company

🚀 WHY JOIN:

  • Tackle some of the hardest problems in cloud-native computing
  • Build mission-critical systems used by developers worldwide
  • Work in a small, agile, remote-first team of industry experts
  • Contribute to a platform-agnostic, scalable data services solution

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