Staff Backend Engineer (Go)

About the Team:

At Netlify, our engineers are at the core of our mission to build a better web. We aim to create a better experience for developers globally by reducing friction and giving them autonomy, agency, and power so that they can innovate at the speed of light. We anchor our engineering teams around self-sufficient teams to drive developer productivity and enable us to scale, conquer, and divide.  Netlify has been remote-first since our inception and we’re globally distributed, spanning across North America and Europe. We’re biased towards asynchronous planning and communication and take documentation seriously, meaning fewer meetings and more execution!

As a Staff Engineer at Netlify, you'll work with a smart set of team members who are very motivated to keep learning and continuing to grow each other in a supportive way. We have a blameless culture where we solve problems as a team and everyone works together towards a common goal. 

Our mission is to build a better web, and you’ll be joining the team that is responsible for globally delivering the web via a fault-tolerant distributed system. We focus on serving requests through a reliable edge infrastructure. Our customers expect their websites to be delivered everywhere with high availability and low latency. We solve problems across product development, infrastructure, and operations, serving everyone from large businesses such as Peloton and Verizon to small startups and nonprofits. Our challenges span the entire stack: from the way we cache the responses to safely executing custom user code within milliseconds, as close to the user as we can. We operate at scale, with daily traffic levels rising to hundreds of thousands of requests per second. We’re responsible for the infrastructure for our services as well as the services themselves.

What You’ll Do: 

• Develop and operate the content delivery network serving our customer’s sites
• Elevate the work of the team and become a subject matter expert in an area that your team owns
• Establish strong async communication rhythms with your peers and leaders, practicing transparency and visibility in your progress against areas of focus
• Join the on-call rotation and help the team pay down technical debt and improve reliability
• Gain a more robust understanding of the needs of the product and become comfortable diagnosing and solving problems
• Have one-on-one's and pairing sessions with some of the people you'll be working closely with and get to know your engineering peers across our product umbrella.
• Extensively collaborate with engineering leadership to level up the team and continually improve the scalability and observability of the platform
• Make a meaningful impact on Netlify's engineering practice and tooling
• Fortify relationships with cross-functional team members as well as broaden your connections across the organization

What You'll Bring:

• Experience developing production-level Golang. 
• An extensive history of delivering product features & deploying services with a high level of comfort iterating on a system while it is constantly serving significant amounts of traffic (100k - 1M rps). Our system is always on with demanding availability and throughput challenges.  
• Some familiarity with and willingness to learn more about technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Redis, as well as observability tools like Datadog and Humio
• Curiosity and openness to learning new technologies and best practices 
• Passion for working in a collaborative environment, where you enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise working across distributed locations around the world 
• The ability to thrive in an environment where experimentation and failure are celebrated

Applying

Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? Please apply anyway!

When applying please include: 

A resume or short listing of your job history & skills (link to a LinkedIn profile would be fine). We appreciate a cover letter explaining why you would enjoy working in this role at Netlify to get to know you a bit better, though this is not required and will not impact your application. Our mission is to “build a better web” and that cannot be done without a diversity of skill sets, backgrounds and thoughts. 

Of everything we've ever built at Netlify, we are most proud of our team. Netlify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are devoted to building a team of people with diverse backgrounds and lifestyles. Driving equality empowers our team, enables us to innovate, and helps us maintain a more inclusive environment. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, race, military/veteran status, citizenship, pregnancy status, or any other differences. If we can do anything to provide a better interview, i.e. accommodate a disability, then please let us know by emailing [email protected]. 

About Netlify

At Netlify, we’re on a mission to build a better web by making it easier than ever to build, deploy, and scale web applications. By unifying an entire ecosystem of web development tools, content sources, services, and APIs into one simplified workflow, Netlify empowers top brands to ship campaigns faster, reduce risk, and boost productivity and revenue. At the forefront of the composable web movement, with over 4 million web developers and businesses using the platform, with Netlify, you can connect everything and build anything. 

We are a Series D company that has raised over $200M from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, EQT, Bessemer, BOND, and Menlo Ventures. As a fully distributed company, we aim to create a company culture where the best idea can come from anywhere and strive to be thoughtful, compassionate, and collaborative in our work. If this sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we’re excited to connect with you!

At Netlify, we are committed to a compensation philosophy that prioritizes fairness and equity, positions our employee compensation competitively in the market, recognizes and rewards performance, and takes a comprehensive approach to our rewards package. We anchor our compensation philosophy on a market-based approach, therefore salary ranges may differ depending on the labor cost in a particular location. The salary provided is in addition to robust benefits and participation in Netlify’s equity plan. Our base compensation for this role is targeted at $165,470 - $223,871 for most US-based locations. Candidates outside the US or in premium markets should consult with their Talent Acquisition partner regarding location-based ranges, as they may be higher or lower than the average US range listed. The starting pay will be determined based on multiple factors, including expertise and skills, market demands, experience, internal equity, and applicable geographic location. These compensation packages and ranges are subject to change and may be modified in the future.