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Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Recruiting From Scratch Remote
senior backend engineer team u&r remote networking vpn design distributed applications technical professional experience science
September 30, 2022
Recruiting From Scratch
Frisco, Texas
OTHER
Our Client

Our client group introduces new compute workloads to the ecosystem. Our distributed network has already supplied over 8,000 years of processing uptime to Ethereum and dozens of other cryptocurrency networks, and users will soon contribute spare bandwidth to support some of the world’s most popular CDN & VPN services.
You’ll be joining the Bandwidth team within the group. You’ll be contributing to the design and development of high-performance networking solutions used to power distributed applications running at-scale across thousands of machines. You’ll work closely with our internal platform team to integrate CDN and VPN workloads into our core experience. You’ll work closely with our partners to understand their unique networking requirements, and you’ll optimize the flow, performance, and reliability of traffic across the cluster. You’ll continue to work to evolve the service into a global-scale mesh networking layer to power both server-client and peer-to-peer distributed applications.
Compensation Range: $150K-190K

Responsibilities

    • Work closely with the product manager, stakeholders, and partners, to help shape technical requirements and specifications
    • Collaborate on a cross-functional team to learn from and share knowledge with coworkers in a fast paced work environment
    • Design, implement, and improve the capabilities, performance, and reliability of the system
    • Work independently to follow through on assignments with minimal direction and take action when answers to a problem are not readily apparent in equivocal situations

Qualifications

    • 7+ years professional experience building networked applications
    • 2+ years professional experience with Go
    • Strong understanding of network protocols including IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, TLS, and HTTP
    • Strong understanding of network security fundamentals and best practices
    • Proficiency optimizing networked applications on Windows and Linux platforms
    • Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, for success in a fully remote, asynchronous work environment
    • Possess excellent communication skills with a keen ability to articulate complex technical challenges and solutions
    • Possess skills necessary to apply agile methodologies in day to day activities
    • Minimum Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering discipline

Benefits

    • Unlimited Vacation
    • Pays 75% Health
    • $500 Work From Home Budget
    • Fully Remote Team
    • Computer Provided
    • Referral Bonus
Anyone we hire will share in the challenges and rewards of a rapidly developing company. Ideal candidates must be comfortable advancing projects with minimal oversight, synthesizing discrete tasks from cross-team discussions, and thoroughly advocating their ideas. Because our team is entirely remote, new hires will also be expected to keep themselves on task and optimize their personal workflows.
Though we support scheduling flexibility, we ask new hires to commit to a core workday that allows for collaboration with teammates operating within the UTC-05:00 (EST) and UTC-09:00 (AKST) time zones. You must work in a time zone in or between the EST and AKST times zones.

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more.


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