Senior Backend Engineer (Go, Kubernetes)

Join Medium as a Senior Backend Engineer

Medium is on a mission to deepen understanding of the world and spread ideas that matter. We are building the best place for reading and writing on the internet—a place where today’s smartest writers, thinkers, experts, and storytellers can share big, interesting ideas. We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to play a pivotal role in building the backend systems that power both Medium’s website and its mobile applications.

What You Will Do

• Own Technical Strategy: You will own the technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems.
• Feature Ownership: Actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
• Quality Assurance: Develop and implement tests for ensuring the quality, performance, and scalability of our application.
• Mentorship: Mentor other engineers and participate in code reviews, lightning talks, and other engineering-department activities.
• Standards and Culture: Contribute to engineering standards, tooling, processes, and culture.
• Production Support: Assist in triaging and resolving production issues.

Who You Are

• Experience: You have 5+ years of experience in backend development.
• Technical Skills: You have strong generalist backend knowledge, including databases, services, performance, profiling, and caching.
• Golang and Kubernetes: You have solid experience with Golang and Kubernetes.
• Communication: You are a strong communicator who can articulate complex ideas clearly.

Why Medium?

At Medium, we foster an inclusive, supportive, fun, and challenging team environment. We value having a team that is made up of a diverse set of backgrounds and respect the healthy expression of diverse opinions. We embrace experimentation and the examination of all kinds of ideas through reasoning and testing. Come join us as we continue to change the world of digital media.

Medium is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.