Sr / Staff / Principal Engineer - Golang & Distributed Systems

at  Impossible Cloud GmbH

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL

• Design, develop, and implement performant and resilient distributed systems (mainly in Go)
• Support a cross-functional setup of scalable data structures, distributed storage, and computing architecture
• Design, build and operate large-scale systems serving data with low latency to many countries worldwide with millions of users
• Run, scale, and maintain production software
• Write high-quality, well-tested code with frequent and fast deployments to production
• Have a crucial impact on the growth of our highly ambitious startup

YOU COULD BE A GREAT FIT FOR THE ROLE IF YOU HAVE

• PhD, Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
• Substantial experience building applications using Go (or related, i.e. Rust)
• Ability to develop, run and maintain large-scale cloud infrastructure services
• Strong experience in designing and developing APIs and high-volume data streaming and processing systems
• Solid understanding of web3 distributed systems and their technical building blocks: e.g. distributed hash tables, consensus algorithms, and p2p gossip protocols
• Deep understanding of network protocols and technologies, from DNS to IP routing, TCP and UDP connections, and modern high-level protocols (HTTP2, gRPC, Websockets)
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Passion for mentoring and educating junior people on the team
• You are a team player with a collaborative attitude