Golang Backend Engineer

Golang Software Engineer required with strong backend engineering skills in Golang / Go programming language for Google Cloud Platform / GCP services, backend development combined with containers, ideally Kubernetes, to deploy services is required by a world-leading cloud video company in Reading with a strong software engineering culture to work on their secure cloud video platform in the analytics/telemetry space.

Salary £65-90k + Benefits

This role would suit a mid-level or senior engineer who wants to work on complex cloud-native Golang development.

The Golang Software engineer role would be hybrid-based in Reading, typically 3 days per week. The office has excellent parking and is accessible from Reading train station.

Key skills required for the role of Golang Software Engineer role would include

• Proficient in writing backend services using Go Programming language / Golang for cloud-native / GCP / Google Cloud Platform services.
• Strong skills in developing and designing cloud platform services/backend systems in Go/ Golang.
• Proven experience in writing clean code and CI/CD with a testing mindset.
• Experience developing cloud-native applications running on Kubernetes / Containers.
• Skills with Databases, ideally Cloud SQL.
• Experience working with public cloud platforms, ideally GCP or AWS.
• Deployment of cloud resources using Infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform.
• Any experience with dashboards and alerting with Grafana using Prometheus metrics, Loki logging, and Tempo tracing to monitor and debug services would be an advantage.
• Strong communication skills and team player who can discuss complex architectures and work in a highly skilled international team.

Key responsibilities for the Golang Software Engineer would be

• Working within a small agile team to design, build, test and deploy backend GCP services using Golang / Go.
• Focus on writing clean, maintainable code that is well-tested.
• Define, design and implement new features by working with other engineering, product, and support teams.
• Set up and monitor GCP resources using Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Working with Grafana, Prometheus and Loki to create dashboards and alerting.
• Be proactive in identifying and making improvements to our existing code base.
• Actively participate in resolving incidents that occur during working hours.

This is an outstanding chance to join and develop your career within a mid-sized, respected software company with a significant European software engineering presence and a friendly and inclusive culture.

The software engineering bar is high, and it’s a great chance to flex your Golang skills working oncomplex GCP cloud-native applications.

There will also be the chance to occasionally travel to their other development hub in Europe and regularly participate in company-wide hackathons.

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