The Role & The Team
As a Backend Software Engineer specializing in Golang at Zalando, you will be a crucial part of our team that manages the edge delivery and protection, ingress, and gateway infrastructure. This infrastructure supports Zalando’s vast service landscape, handling millions of requests daily and processing up to 5 million requests per second during peak events like CyberWeek.
Responsibilities
- Operate, improve, and extend the ingress infrastructure for over 100+ Kubernetes clusters.
- Maintain and develop Skipper, a modern open-source HTTP router and reverse proxy, and higher-level applications built on top of it.
- Work closely with Kubernetes, AWS, and Go to enhance user experience, efficiency, and reliability of our products.
- Drive operational excellence by adhering to design principles such as operations as code, making frequent and small reversible changes, anticipating failure, and learning from operational events.
Inclusive by Design
At Zalando, inclusivity is at the core of our hiring process. We assess candidates based on qualifications and merit without discrimination. We encourage applications from all, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or disability status.
What We’d Love You to Do
- Manage features and services from problem definition through solution delivery and ongoing operations.
- Suggest and implement solutions to simplify systems and reduce technical debt.
- Contribute to open source projects as part of your daily work.
- Foster a positive impact on our engineering culture by encouraging knowledge sharing and driving technical discussions.
We’d Love to Meet You If
- You have extensive experience in writing production applications in Go, with at least 3+ years of hands-on development.
- You possess strong communication skills and can articulate your ideas clearly.
- You have a solid understanding of networking concepts and AWS services.
- You are familiar with CI/CD practices and value operational excellence.
Our Offer
- A culture of trust, empowerment, and constructive feedback.
- Opportunities for personal and professional growth in an international team of experts.
- Competitive benefits including salary, bonuses, and discounts.
- Support for a healthy work-life balance with flexible working times and additional holidays.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Culture of trust and empowerment
- Open source commitment
- Competitive salary
- Employee share shop
- 40% Zalando shopping discount
- Flexible working times
- Relocation assistance
- Extensive onboarding and personal development opportunities
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