Jobgether
Software Engineer - Platform
TLDR
Build and scale core platform systems for a high-scale database, delivering reliable, high-performance backend infrastructure with autonomous ownership in a distributed team.
Accountabilities:
- Design and build core platform systems that support a high-scale database infrastructure, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability for global workloads.
- Contribute to the development and evolution of distributed systems powering database services used by high-traffic applications.
- Collaborate with a team of experienced engineers to solve complex challenges in distributed systems, performance optimization, and system reliability.
- Work autonomously to analyze and resolve technical and business problems with minimal supervision, delivering robust and scalable solutions.
- Engage directly with customers to understand requirements and translate them into effective platform and infrastructure improvements.
- Debug, maintain, and enhance large-scale codebases while ensuring high standards of quality, performance, and maintainability.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend systems, distributed systems, or infrastructure engineering.
- Strong proficiency in Go, with additional experience in languages such as Python, Java, or C++.
- Solid understanding of relational databases (e.g., MySQL) and experience working with high-scale data systems.
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerized cloud-native environments.
- Proven track record of designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production.
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills across complex, multi-component systems.
- Ability to work independently with high autonomy while making sound technical decisions.
- Experience in high-growth engineering environments is a strong plus.
- Nice-to-have: exposure to database internals, query optimization, observability tooling, or cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Competitive compensation package including base salary, equity, and performance-related components.
- Opportunity to work on globally scaled infrastructure powering some of the world’s most widely used applications.
- Fully remote-friendly environment with flexibility in working location.
- High ownership role within a small, high-caliber engineering team.
- Exposure to cutting-edge distributed systems and database technologies at scale.
- Inclusive, engineering-driven culture focused on impact, learning, and technical excellence.
- Opportunity to work on systems that directly influence how global companies manage critical data.
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How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
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Benefits
Equity Compensation
equity
Impactful systems work
Opportunity to work on systems that directly influence how global companies manage critical data.
Remote-Friendly
Fully remote-friendly environment with flexibility in working location.
Jobgether runs the largest remote job platform, effectively linking job seekers with over 200,000 flexible and remote opportunities that match their unique skills and preferences. Our focus is on enhancing the hiring process, ensuring efficiency while prioritizing the candidate experience, particularly in the growing health and wellness sector.
- Founded
- Founded 2020
- Employees
- 11-50 employees
- Industry
- Professional Services
Software Engineer