Staff Engineer - Backend at EchoStar
Englewood, CO 80112, USA -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

14 Nov, 25

Salary

157300.0

Posted On

14 Aug, 25

Experience

0 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Ecs, Unit Testing, Automation, Kubernetes, Rabbitmq, Microservices, Logging, Databases, Incident Response, Ec2, Root, Testing, Integration Testing, Test Automation, Docker, Kafka, Messaging, Design

Industry

Information Technology/IT

Description

Company Summary
Our DISH Technology team challenges the status quo and reimagines capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our team members play vital roles in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.
Department Summary
Our DISH Technology team challenges the status quo and reimagines capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our team members play vital roles in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
We are looking for a Backend Developer with solid experience in Golang microservices, AWS, and platform engineering practices, with a strong appreciation for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles. You will design and develop backend services that run at scale in cloud environments, help maintain platform reliability and performance, and work across development and infrastructure to improve engineering efficiency.
This role is ideal for developers who love building cloud-native applications and also care deeply about system performance, observability, reliability, and automation.

KEY SKILLS & TECHNOLOGIES

  • Primary Language: Golang (Go)
  • Microservices: Design and implementation of scalable, stateless services
  • Cloud Platform: Deep experience with AWS services (EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, ECS, etc.)

SRE Skills:

  • Monitoring, logging, and alerting setup
  • Incident response and root cause analysis
  • Error budgets and service-level indicators (SLIs/SLOs)

Platform Engineering:

  • CI/CD, developer tooling, automation
  • Infrastructure provisioning (Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • Containers: Docker; basic to intermediate knowledge of Kubernetes
  • Databases: Proficiency with MySQL/PostgreSQL and DynamoDB/MongoDB
  • Messaging: Exposure to Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar event streaming tools
  • Testing & Quality: Unit testing, integration testing, and test automation

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Responsibilities
  • Golang Microservices: Develop high-quality, scalable microservices using Go, following clean architecture and industry best practices.
  • API Development: Build RESTful and gRPC APIs to support internal and external integrations.
  • Cloud-Native Engineering: Design, deploy, and manage services on AWS using tools like EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and ECS.
  • SRE-Inspired Ownership: Take end-to-end responsibility for services in production, ensuring observability, uptime, and performance.
  • Platform Engineering: Contribute to reusable platform components, developer tools, and infrastructure automation to improve team velocity and reduce friction.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Work with Terraform or CloudFormation to provision and manage cloud infrastructure reliably.
  • CI/CD Pipelines: Contribute to build and deployment automation using GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar tools.
  • Monitoring & Observability: Instrument services and set up dashboards and alerts using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or similar tools.
  • Collaboration: Partner with DevOps, QA, product managers, and other engineering teams to ship resilient, well-tested features.
  • Troubleshooting & Support: Participate in on-call or rotation-based incident response and root cause analysis.
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