Senior Backend Software Engineer

Engineers at Weave build features and maintain back-end services using Go (GoLang) microservices, while collaborating with other teams to coordinate work efforts. They are responsible for the long-term quality of the code they write and maintain, crafting reliable web services that are deployed with containers on Kubernetes. As integral members of an autonomous, cross-functional team, engineers contribute wherever needed and thrive in a high-trust environment. At Weave, engineers truly enjoy great days, almost every day!

This position is 100% remote while located in India

Reports to: Manager of Engineering

What you will need to accomplish the job

• 5+ years of experience with back-end languages, e.g. Go, Java, Ruby, Python, C#, etc. (Go is a major plus).

• Experience building Data Platform and Products at scale.

• Willing to learn a new and exciting language - Go.

• Willing to participate in an on-call rotation with the rest of your team.

• Experience working with distributed systems, and inter-service communication protocols and APIs, e.g ReST, protobufs/gRPC, Kafka, NSQ, etc.

• Experience with building streaming applications on top of Kafka Streams/Flink.

• Experience working with relational databases and SQL.

• Develop and review design, functional, technical, and/or user documentation, as needed.

• Contribute to the design, implementation, and architecture of new or re-engineered software.

• Develop, test, and integrate code for new or existing software of significant complexity.

What will make us love you

• Deploying into a public cloud service (especially GCP).

• Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).

• Experience with Change Data Capture from a relational database.

• Experience with protobufs/gRPC.

• Experience with deployments using CI/CD, Jenkins, etc.

• Solid understanding of distributed systems and building scalable/redundant service.

• Experience with pipeline monitoring, metrics, alerting, log aggregation, and tracing.

• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, etc.

Weave is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals are valued and supported. We welcome anyone who is hungry to learn, problem-solve and progress regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

All official correspondence will occur through Weave branded email. We will never ask you to share bank account information, cash a check from us, or purchase software or equipment as part of your interview or hiring process.