Senior Software Engineer (Golang)
ScyllaDB
Software Engineering
Poland
Posted on Mar 25, 2025
Description
At Scylla Cloud, we deliver the strength of ScyllaDB in a fully managed database-as-a-service platform. We provide our service in numerous locations around the globe and support multiple cloud providers. Our platform is managing hundreds of nodes for known logos around the world, complying with challenging requirements with regard to performance, availability, resiliency, security, and disaster recovery.
We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join the team that is building the next-generation distributed NoSQL database and help build our DBaaS (Database as a service).
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design of the overall architecture of the web application
- Maintain code integrity, organization, and quality and ensure responsiveness of applications
- Collaborate with the engineering team to design and launch new features
- Design & Build APIs with Go to support the frontend
- Work closely with UX/Product to improve onboarding and product experiences
- Identify promising new technologies, articulate their value, and help the team adopt them
- Develop and maintain client-side and server-side applications
- Designing tests that will be implemented to keep software functional
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience as a developer in the hi-tech industry
- Experience of at least 3 years of experience in Go as the main development language
- Developer-level experience with the Linux operating system
- Experience with working on SaaS, DBaaS or with any of the cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP) in a production environment
- Experience working with shared code repositories and procedures (git/Github; forking, committing, filing bugs, etc.)
Advantages:
- Experience in one or more distributed NoSQL databases (Scylla, Cassandra, DataStax Enterprise, Amazon DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, Google Cloud Bigtable, MongoDB, Couchbase, Aerospike, etc.)
- Prior experience in Database Administration (DBA) or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Experience in Open Source development
- Familiarity with database performance monitoring (Grafana/Prometheus), testing (Jepsen), and/or troubleshooting/debugging (Wireshark)