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Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Bluesky
4 days ago
Full-time
Remote
$179,000 - $242,000 USD yearly
Bluesky's mission is to transition the social web from platforms to protocols. We're building a federated social network where users have more power. Our team has decades of combined experience building distributed applications. As a backend dev, you'll build data infrastructure that powers Blueskyโ€™s developer services and will be a critical part of transforming social media.

Working on our AT Protocol-oriented services, youโ€™ll be building and maintaining systems running on dense, latest-generation, bare-metal servers running in our own racks serving hundreds of thousands of events per second.

Responsibilities:
  • Scale our Go production services to hundreds of millions of users
  • Build mission critical data infrastructure that powers much of the AT Protocol ecosystem
  • Build services that scale across tens of terabytes of RAM, thousands of CPU cores, and petabytes of NVME storage

You might be a good fit if you:
  • Have strong fundamental programming and software engineering skills
  • Have extensive experience with Go (e.g. 3+ years)
  • Have built scalable backend systems (1M+ ops/sec) (e.g. data services, load balancers, etc.)
  • Have familiarity with the upper limits of operating systems, networks, and storage.
  • Have significant experience with database systems (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, SQLite)
  • Have some experience with with other data stores (e.g. Scylla/Cassandra, Redis, ClickHouse)
  • Have a high bar for ownership and operation of production services.
  • Like working on small, fast-moving teams
  • Have read the AT Protocol docs and want to contribute

We're especially excited if you have:
  • Previous experience working on social or Internet infrastructure at large scale

We're a fully remote team, though a significant overlap of working hours with US/Pacific is required. For full-time roles, we offer health, dental, and vision insurance.

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๏ปฟThe anticipated base salary range for this position is $179,000 - $242,000, excluding equity. Equity will be considered in the total compensation package. The final base salary for this role will be based on the individualโ€™s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses and certifications.