Software Engineer (Backend, Go)

Join our team as a Software Engineer (Backend, Go) and help build the Go services behind the k0rdent-ai platform, a multi-tenant control plane for enterprise GPU infrastructure. You will collaborate with engineering teams across the US, Europe, and India to design and develop API-first services. You will own features end to end, work within an agile framework, and directly impact the reliability and correctness of the infrastructure our customers run in production.

Concevoir et développer des services API-first en Go pour la plateforme k0rdent-ai.

Something you built and can walk us through in detail: what it does, why you designed it that way, and what you would change now

Responsibilities

• Posséder des fonctionnalités de bout en bout, y compris le contrat API, le service, le schéma, l'orchestration, les tests et l'emballage.
• Collaborer avec des équipes d'ingénierie à l'échelle mondiale pour garantir la fiabilité et la précision de l'infrastructure.
• Clear written English for design docs, review comments, and asynchronous collaboration across global time zones
• Solid relational database skills — schema design, migrations, transactions, and query tuning
• Experience building and shipping REST APIs, and a working understanding of versioning and backward compatibility
• Cloud-Native & Kubernetes Ecosystem: Container orchestration using Kubernetes, Cluster API, custom controllers and operators, Docker runtime, and deployment packaging through Helm charts
• Identity Federation & Ingress Gateway: Keycloak architecture (realms, client configurations, federated providers, auth token lifecycles) alongside Envoy or comparable edge proxies (traffic management, filter chains, rate limiting policies)
• Python or TypeScript for E2E suites and client SDKs

Requirements

• Testing discipline: unit and integration tests are part of your definition of done, alongside code review and CI/CD (GitHub Actions or equivalent)
• 4-5 years of professional software engineering, including 2-3+ years building production backend services in Go (4+ years of Go preferred)
• Solid CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency, networking, and how HTTP and databases actually work
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent demonstrated ability
• Strong Go fundamentals: concurrency, context propagation, error wrapping, stdlib HTTP routing (Go 1.22+)

Durable Workflow Execution: Temporal orchestrations

• Persistence & Event Infrastructure: Relational data persistence in PostgreSQL with database schema migration workflows, coupled with distributed streaming platforms like Apache Kafka or NATS JetStream messaging
• The "I'll figure it out" instinct — you research, experiment, and read source code before asking to be unblocked, and you ask a well-formed question when you are
• Willingness to be reviewed rigorously and to treat feedback as the fastest way to get better
• Testing instinct — you can explain how you know your own code works
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, audit logging
• Exposure to GPU infrastructure or AI/ML workload scheduling on Kubernetes

Preferred

• Candidates with strong Go and API design basics are evaluated primarily; prior familiarity with these tools is beneficial, though on-the-job mastery is anticipated
• Sqlc, OpenAPI codegen, or other schema-driven toolchains
• SCIM provisioning, or federating platform permissions with Kubernetes RBAC
• Multi-tenant SaaS or PaaS platform experience
• CNCF open-source contributions
• Security engineering: threat modeling, secret management, dependency and container scanning

Benefits

• K0s ecosystem experience