As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll build and maintain data infrastructure in Go for Bluesky's applications, ensuring scalability and performance on large backend systems.
Bluesky's mission is to transition the social web from platforms to protocols. We're building a federated social network where users have more power. Our team has decades of combined experience building distributed applications. As a backend dev, you'll build data infrastructure that powers the Bluesky AppView and will be a critical part of transforming social media.
Working on Bluesky’s Go systems, you’ll be building and maintaining systems running on dense, latest-generation, bare-metal servers running in our own racks performing millions of queries per second.
Responsibilities:
- Scale our Go production services to hundreds of millions of users
- Build mission-critical data infrastructure that powers every API request Bluesky receives
- Build services that scale across tens of terabytes of RAM, thousands of CPU cores, and petabytes of NVME storage
You might be a good fit if you:
- Have strong fundamental programming and software engineering skills
- Have extensive experience with Go (e.g. 5+ years)
- Have built scalable backend systems (1M+ ops/sec) (e.g. data services, load balancers, etc.)
- Have familiarity with the upper limits of operating systems, networks, and storage.
- Have significant experience with database systems (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, SQLite)
- Have some experience with other data stores (e.g. Scylla/Cassandra, Redis, ClickHouse)
- Have some experience with search systems (e.g. Elasticsearch)
- Like working on small, fast-moving teams
- Have read the AT Protocol docs and want to contribute
This role is NOT a good fit for you if you:
- do not use Go at your current job.
We're especially excited if you have:
- Previous experience working on infrastructure for social apps at large scale
We’re a fully remote team, but an overlap of working hours with PST is required, and for this role, proximity and willingness to travel to Seattle is a plus. Please note, there may be an on-site component to these interviews. We offer health, dental, and vision insurance.
If you want to work with an excellent team and help define the future of social, we encourage you to apply.
Additional Notes:
- The anticipated base salary range for this position is $170,000 - $230,000, excluding equity. Equity will be considered in the total compensation package. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses and certifications.
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