What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Go Backend Engineer position at Circuit?
About Our Startup
Circuit is on a mission to build the world's first knowledge network. Our AI-powered platform transforms information into actionable knowledge, allowing you to make informed decisions that drive positive impact in every area of your life -- whether at work, at home, or in the community.
Circuit is seeking a dedicated Principal Go Backend Engineer to join our team. As a Principal engineer, you’ll primarily be an individual contributor, but also expected to work with stakeholders across the company and mentor team mates.
Join us in shaping the future of knowledge!
Role Summary
As a Principal Go Backend Engineer for our datapath team, you will work on our data processing pipeline, as well as data ingestion and inferencing. You will work closely with architects and the rest of the team to define our path forward, and then put your Go skills to work building and scaling our systems.
\n- Define and implement our go data processing pipeline, ingestion and inferencing.
- Testing and QA through to production for owned features.
- Manage individual priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
- Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Computer Science preferred.
- 5 years of experience with Go.
- 5 years designing and operating highly available multi-tenant services.
- 2 years of experience building data processing pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of databases in the context of highly scalable web services, preferably PostgreSQL.
- Experience with Python.
- Experience with Kafka or similar platforms.
- Understanding of Networking concepts (like TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc).
- Experience with Linux, containers, Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with best practices for securing cloud based services.
- Strong problem-solving abilities and adaptability in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
What We Offer
- Early-Stage Opportunity: Join the next big AI company at the ground floor.
- Results-Driven & People-Centric Culture: Cultivate collaboration, professional growth, accountability and action.
- Cutting-Edge Tech: Access groundbreaking AI and data engineering tools.
- Impact-Focused: Innovate to make a real impact on people, organizations, and communities.
- Robust Benefits: Competitive compensation, employer-paid medical, dental and ancillary benefits, 401K, flexible PTO and much more.
How to Apply
If you’re passionate about data and AI and excited about driving business value through innovative solutions, we’d love for you to submit an application!
Equal-Opportunity Employer
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.