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Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Bluesky Social. Scale Go production services to hundreds of millions of users .
Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive experience in Go programming and building scalable backend systems, with a strong focus on high-performance data infrastructure and production service operation standards. Capable of working collaboratively in fast-paced environments while maintaining high ownership of service quality.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Go ProgrammingScalable Backend SystemsDatabase Systems (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite)Data Stores (Scylla, Cassandra, Redis, ClickHouse)Production Service Operation Standards
ATS Keywords
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Hard Skills
Go ProgrammingSoftware EngineeringScalable Backend SystemsDatabase SystemsData StoresOperating SystemsNetworkingStorage ManagementPerformance OptimizationEvent Handling
Soft Skills
High OwnershipTeam CollaborationAdaptabilityCommunication
Tools & Technologies
PostgresMySQLSQLiteScyllaCassandraRedisClickHouseBare-Metal ServersAT ProtocolGitHub
Industry Keywords
Data InfrastructureProduction ServicesEvent ProcessingHigh-Performance ComputingCloud Services
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCassandraMySQLPostgresRedisSQLiteGo
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Scale Go production services to hundreds of millions of users
- Build mission-critical data infrastructure powering the AT Protocol ecosystem
- Build services scaling across tens of terabytes of RAM, thousands of CPU cores, and petabytes of NVMe storage
- Work on AT Protocol-oriented services running on dense, latest-generation bare-metal servers in company racks
- Maintain systems serving hundreds of thousands of events per second
Requirements
What you’ll need- Strong fundamental programming and software engineering skills
- Extensive experience with Go (e.g. 3+ years)
- Experience building scalable backend systems (1M+ ops/sec)
- Familiarity with the upper limits of operating systems, networks, and storage
- Significant experience with database systems such as Postgres, MySQL, or SQLite
- Experience with data stores such as Scylla/Cassandra, Redis, or ClickHouse
- High ownership and production service operation standards
- Ability to work on small, fast-moving teams
- Read the AT Protocol documentation and want to contribute
- Resume and links to GitHub, GitLab, or a portfolio of past work attached together
- Must work with significant overlap of US/Pacific hours
Benefits
Comp & perks- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Fully remote work arrangement
- Significant overlap of working hours with US/Pacific