Job description
Role Overview:
We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Backend Developer to join our team! In this essential role, you will be part of a team developing, deploying, and maintaining backend services with an emphasis on infrastructure. We are seeking someone eager to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities:
- Backend Development: Develop customer-facing applications, APIs, and infrastructure, leveraging Go for backend development and Kubernetes for container orchestration.
- Infrastructure & DevOps: Maintain secure, high-availability cloud infrastructures and microservice architectures, applying cybersecurity best practices and handling DevOps responsibilities such as troubleshooting issues and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- System Reliability & Monitoring: Develop and maintain observability tools, leveraging dashboards such as Kibana for proactive monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure systems are online and performing as expected.
Parallelz Cultural Values
Drive to Win. High Performance Matters: We are inspired by those who pursue excellence, and we work with those who do. Achieving this required hard work, humility, and a commitment to constant improvement.
Challenge the Status Quo. Innovate Constantly: Curiosity drives us. We challenge the status quo and pursue ideas that fuel continuous growth.
Lead with First Principles. Reduce, Rethink, Rebuild: We deconstruct challenges to their atomic level, rethink and challenge assumptions, and pursue deep understanding to create impactful innovations.
Act Like It’s Yours. Own It: Everyone is expected to think like an owner. Taking full responsibility for understanding the inputs, outputs, and context to deliver and be accountable to the results that move the vision forward.
Parallelz is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities. If you require accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs. Accommodation may be provided in all parts of the hiring process.
Required Skills:
- Go (Golang) programming language
- Experience developing backend APIs
- Experience maintaining infrastructure systems that include microservices and queues
- Understanding of cybersecurity and cloud security best practices.
- Experience with Docker containers
- Basic understanding of container orchestrators such as Kubernetes
- Proficiency in designing and creating dashboards and alerts to ensure system health
- Passion for solving complex technical challenges
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex technical concepts and ideas
Nice-to-Haves:
- Experience with Traefik
- Experience with GitHub Actions
- Experience with OpenTelemetry
This is a full-time, remote position. We offer a competitive salary, benefits, and an Employee Stock Option Plan.
