Senior Go Engineer

Go Engineer (Platform Team)

About:

Working for an exciting scale-up, building a modern, resilient, and scalable platform that powers products used by thousands daily. The Platform Team is at the heart of this mission - designing, automating, and evolving the infrastructure and tooling that lets our engineering organisation ship with confidence.

The Role:

We're looking for a skilled Software Engineer with hands-on Kubernetes experience to help grow and mature the platform. You'll work closely with engineers across the company to design cloud-native systems, improve developer experience, and enable efficient, secure delivery of our services.

What You'll Do:

  • Design, build, and maintain core platform capabilities using Kubernetes and cloud-native tooling
  • Develop automation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code
  • Improve observability, monitoring, and operational excellence
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability
  • Contribute to architecture discussions and guide best practices for cloud-native development
  • Participate in on-call rotations (shared and well-supported)

What We're Looking For:

  • Solid experience working with Kubernetes in production
  • Strong software engineering skills in Go
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Familiarity with IaC tools (Terraform, Helm, etc.)
  • Knowledge of containerisation, CI/CD, and DevOps practices
  • A collaborative mindset and willingness to learn and share knowledge

Bonus Points:

  • Experience with service meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)
  • Background in SRE, platform engineering, or developer productivity
  • Knowledge of distributed systems concepts

Go Engineer (Platform Team)

Job Details

Company
TechShack
Location
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted