Who you are

• Experience: 2–3+ years of commercial backend development experience
• Go Expertise: You have a deep understanding of Go, including concurrency primitives (goroutines/channels), memory management, and runtime behaviour
• Database Internals: Strong experience with various databases (SQL & NoSQL). You understand the trade-offs between different storage engines and consistency models
• Cloud Native: Hands-on experience with public clouds (AWS or GCP). You understand modern cloud architecture patterns
• Event-Driven Patterns: Experience building distributed systems using message queues and event-driven architecture
• Foundational Knowledge: Solid understanding of Networking (TCP/IP, HTTP, gRPC) and the basics of Kubernetes
• Experience specifically with DynamoDB or Bigtable
• Hands-on work with AWS SQS/SNS or Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, ZeroMQ…
• Experience implementing observability using tools like Datadog, Grafana, and Prometheus

What the job involves

• We are looking for a passionate Engineer to join our Application Platform Team. We build the core infrastructure, shared libraries, and architectural standards that power Sardine’s entire ecosystem
• Why this role is different: You won’t just ship features; you will define how code is written across the company. If you enjoy digging deep into database internals, optimizing high-load systems, and solving complex architectural challenges, this is the place for you
• Architect & Build: Design and implement high-performance, scalable microservices using Go. You will build the foundation that other teams rely on
• Optimize Core Systems: Analyze and improve the efficiency of our infrastructure. You will identify and solve deep performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, and network issues
• Standardize Best Practices: Help define architectural patterns for database usage, API design, and cloud infrastructure

Benefits

• Generous equity compensation
• Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
• Unlimited paid time off and minimum 2 weeks/year of mandatory vacation
• 100% of health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and 50% for dependents
• 4% matching in 401k
• Company-wide offsites, the last one was at Miami
• MacBook Pro delivered to your door
• One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, monitors, etc