Microservices Engineer

Accountabilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, robust software and microservices that operate reliably at significant scale.


• Design APIs and software architectures for peer and technical review, with a focus on maintainability and long-term evolution.


• Build comprehensive automated tests that validate software behavior and service reliability.


• Develop and maintain fault-tolerant applications and distributed services.


• Contribute to API design, documentation, governance, and engineering standards.


• Improve scalability, performance, resilience, and availability across web services and distributed systems.


• Work with relational and non-relational databases, considering performance, reliability, and architectural trade-offs.


• Apply modern DevOps practices across continuous integration, continuous delivery, deployment, monitoring, tracing, and profiling.


• Diagnose complex technical issues, identify root causes, and implement high-quality solutions.


• Contribute to proactive security practices, including fuzzing and other security analysis techniques.


• Collaborate proactively with globally distributed engineering teams and contribute to cross-team technical initiatives.


• Provide technical leadership through design discussions, documentation, mentoring, and engagement with external technical communities.


• Contribute to technical documentation and help establish clear, reusable engineering knowledge.


• Work remotely while participating in international company events approximately twice per year.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering experience with a track record of building modern, maintainable, and scalable software.


• Proficiency in Python and/or Go.


• Experience designing and operating scalable web services, microservices, or systems software.


• Solid understanding of REST APIs, API architecture, documentation, and service design principles.


• Experience working with relational and non-relational database systems.


• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.


• Experience with Linux, preferably Debian or Ubuntu.


• Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability, scalability, and fault-tolerant architecture.


• Professional written and spoken English.


• Strong analytical and debugging abilities, with a practical approach to solving complex engineering problems.


• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical teams.


• Curiosity, flexibility, accountability, and a strong sense of ownership.


• Self-motivated and results-oriented, with a consistent focus on delivering high-quality outcomes.


• A degree in Computer Science, STEM, or a compelling alternative professional background.


• Additional experience with LXD, Docker, Kubernetes, or other container technologies is valuable.


• Familiarity with build systems, toolchains, or cross-compilation is a plus.


• Experience with hyperscale public or private cloud environments is beneficial.


• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems is advantageous.


• Background in performance engineering or application security is a plus.


• Willingness and ability to travel approximately twice a year for company events lasting up to two weeks.

• Geographically adjusted compensation based on location, experience, and performance.


• Performance-driven annual bonus.


• Annual compensation review.


• Fully distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints.


• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.


• Recognition rewards.


• Annual holiday leave.


• Maternity and paternity leave.


• Employee Assistance Programme.


• Opportunities to travel and meet colleagues in different locations around the world.


• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events.


• Opportunity to work on large-scale microservices supporting millions of clients and critical infrastructure.


• Exposure to modern cloud, distributed systems, DevOps, security, performance, and observability practices.


• Collaboration with a globally distributed engineering community across multiple time zones.

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