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Senior Backend Engineer

Full-time

Coder

What you'll do here

Design and build new features end to end, from technical design through production rollout.

Design and implement backend architecture changes that support Coder's long-term scalability goals.

Investigate and resolve scalability bottlenecks under production-like load, from database access patterns to concurrency handling in coderd .

Improve database migration safety and upgrade reliability through schema compatibility, background migrations, and safe rollback strategies.

Own the backend side of issues surfaced by Coder operators and administrators.

Document the design, implementation, and operational tradeoffs of the systems you build.

Participate in code reviews, RFC-style design discussions, and on-call rotations for the services you own.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant production experience with Go .
  • Deep understanding of Go's concurrency model, including goroutines, channels, the sync package, and debugging race conditions under real-world load.
  • Experience designing and operating relational databases in production, including schema design, migrations, and transactions.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Exceptional debugging and troubleshooting skills, with the persistence to drive complex problems to resolution.
  • A self-motivated, analytical engineer who enjoys tackling difficult technical challenges.

Bonus tacos if you have

  • Experience with infrastructure engineering.
  • Experience building or operating distributed systems at a meaningful scale.
  • Curiosity about the latest developer tooling.

Our tech stack

  • Backend: Go , Postgres , GCP , Kubernetes , gRPC
  • Observability: Prometheus , Grafana
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions
  • General: GitHub, Slack, Discord, Notion
Vacancy posted 20 days ago
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