[Hiring] Senior Go Engineer @Referral Board

Role Description

The Observability team is developing and providing solutions to application developers and engineers that run infrastructure and services supporting these applications. Elasticsearch is an efficient datastore for logs, metrics, application traces and profiling data. The Observability team builds and maintains solutions that make getting insights from this data turnkey and efficient, such as:

• APM
• Infrastructure Monitoring
• Logs
• Universal Profiling

As a Senior Go Engineer in the Observability - Ingest - Intake Services team, you will be part of a team developing high quality observability products that are essential to the ingest flow of the Elastic Observability solution. The team’s main focus is on:

• Building and maintaining backend intake service components for cloud managed and on-prem deployments
• Owning operational stability through extensive monitoring and SLOs
• Focusing on quality, performance, reliability, security, and testability
• Automation and continuous improvements

You’ll be collaborating with immediate team colleagues and across team boundaries. The team is diverse and distributed across the world, collaborating daily over GitHub, Zoom, and Slack.

What You Will Be Doing

• Design and implement new features for the Observability intake services in Go
• Maintain, update and improve existing code and dependencies while ensuring automated test coverage
• Create and improve the development infrastructure using modern tooling such as Tilt and Terraform
• Build a strong backend solution for the OpenTelemetry data flow
• Design data formats for optimized data storage and query performance in Elasticsearch
• Provide Pull Request reviews and guidance to your peers
• Build SLIs and SLOs and participate in an on-call rotation for the services in the team’s ownership
• Proactively participate in team conversations and contribute to a positive team culture
• Collaborate with other parts of the company on cross team features and topics
• Collaborate with the support team on customer requests, and engage with the community via pull requests, issues and discuss forums

What You Bring

• A positive attitude and a curious mindset
• Experience with Go, with strong analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
• Interest in going deep on advanced topics such as memory management, benchmarking or profiling
• 5+ years of experience programming in Go
• Experience and knowledge in the Observability space (developing monitoring products, working with metrics and sampling strategies, etc)
• Experience developing high throughput, low latency services
• Experience working with stream processing platforms such as Apache Kafka or cloud provider managed queues
• Understanding how to design and implement SLOs
• Experience working with various cloud service providers
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Ability to work independently in a globally distributed team, while ensuring to collaborate and share knowledge with your colleagues

Bonus Points

• Experience with or interest in OpenTelemetry
• Knowledge of Elasticsearch and/or Kibana
• Experience participating in technical decision-making across different engineering teams

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave