Senior Go Engineer - Cloud Platform / Distributed Systems

Location: Manchester / hybrid or UK remote Salary: Permanent: £90,000 – £130,000 + equity and benefits. Contract: competitive day rate Type: Permanent or contract Our client, a scaling technology business running high-volume systems across the UK and Europe, needs a senior Go engineer to help shape its platform. A hands-on role with real influence over architecture and standards.

What you'll do

Lead the design and build of distributed backend systems in Go Evolve the cloud platform: Kubernetes, infrastructure as code and CI/CD Own reliability through strong observability, metrics, alerting and incident follow-up Make services fast, scalable and secure under real production load Mentor engineers, lead code reviews and raise the technical bar Shape architecture decisions alongside product and engineering leadership What you'll bring: Several years of backend engineering, with strong production Go Deep experience of distributed systems and concurrency Kubernetes and containers in production AWS or GCP, plus Terraform or similar Messaging such as Kafka; databases such as PostgreSQL gRPC, Prometheus/Grafana or a fintech/payments background a plus Experience mentoring or leading other engineers

Benefits

Equity, bonus, pension and private healthcare (permanent roles). Apply via Eclipse: click Apply to send us your CV. Eclipse Total Solutions, IT recruitment specialists...

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