[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @GoDaddy

Role Description

Join Our Team.... Our team develops and maintains the service and infrastructure behind GoDaddy’s backup system, supporting hosting platforms including WordPress, cPanel, and Airo AI Builder sites. We operate a mission-critical system that performs daily backups for over 2 million customer websites and applications, ensuring data protection and business continuity at a massive scale.

What you'll get to do...

• Design, build, and maintain backend services powering GoDaddy’s backup infrastructure.
• Develop and enhance RESTful APIs that integrate across multiple hosting platforms.
• Work on distributed systems handling backups for 2+ million websites daily.
• Improve system scalability, reliability, and performance in a high-availability environment.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Hosting, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Customer Care, UI/UX, Security, and Architecture teams.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
• Conduct code reviews and contribute to shared engineering standards and best practices.
• Support monitoring, incident response, and on-call responsibilities to maintain system health.
• Contribute to architectural decisions that shape the future of our backup platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong backend RESTful API development experience in production environments.
• Proficiency in a general-purpose programming language such as Go, Python, PHP, or NodeJS.
• Experience integrating a broad variety of technologies via API consumption and production.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and reliability principles.
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns.
• Experience working in Agile environments, participating in sprint ceremonies.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, product, and operations partners.
• Passion for clean code, coding standards, and long-term system health.

Requirements

• Experience with AWS cloud services.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation solutions.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and data modeling.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tooling (logging, metrics, alerting).
• A strong ownership mentality with the ability to work independently.
• A continuous improvement outlook and passion for learning.

Benefits

• Paid time off.
• Retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes).
• Bonus/incentive eligibility.
• Equity grants.
• Participation in our employee stock purchase plan.
• Competitive health benefits.
• Other family-friendly benefits, including parental leave.

Company Description

GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all.

GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success.

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements.