Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RAPIDFORT is seeking a skilled and passionate Senior Backend Engineer to join their team, focusing on the design, development, and maintenance of high-performance, scalable microservices. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Go and a deep understanding of distributed systems architecture.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable backend microservices using Go
- Collaborate with product managers and front-end teams to define API specifications and integration points
- Ensure services are deployed, monitored, and scaled efficiently in a Kubernetes environment
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and planning sessions
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues, ensuring high availability and performance
- Drive continuous improvement in development processes, tooling, and infrastructure
Skills
- Python (Deep expertise with frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, or Django)
- Go (Golang) (Experience building robust, high-concurrency microservices)
- Designing, developing, and deploying RESTful APIs
- Keycloak, API authentication, JWT
- Realtime analytics (Clickhouse)
- Relational databases (MySQL) including complex query optimization
- NoSQL databases (Redis)
- Kubernetes for deployment and scaling
- Docker container build
- Writing comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
- 7+ years of professional experience in backend software development, with a significant focus on building and operating microservices in a production environment
- Proven ability to work with and contribute to large-scale, distributed systems
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) for deployment, monitoring, and scaling
- Production microservices ownership (not just “worked on”)
- Has owned at least 1–2 services end-to-end (design → build → deploy → on-call → incident fixes → scaling)
- Comfortable with service boundaries, APIs, versioning, backward compatibility, SLAs/SLOs
- Can design systems with tradeoffs: latency, throughput, cost, reliability
- Patterns: idempotency, retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, async workflows, queues, eventual consistency
- Data design: relational vs NoSQL, caching, indexing, migrations, multi-tenant considerations (if relevant)
- Can take an ambiguous production issue and drive it to resolution
- Uses a structured approach: reproduce → isolate → instrument → hypothesis → validate → fix → prevent
- Confident with commands/tools like: ps/top/htop, journalctl, systemctl, netstat/ss, lsof, curl, grep/sed/awk, strace (bonus), log parsing
- Understands networking basics (DNS, TLS, ports, timeouts)
- Can explain Dockerfiles, layers, multi-stage builds, image size/security
- Debug containers: env vars, volumes, entrypoints, networking, resource limits
- Strong in structured logging, correlation IDs, trace context
- Metrics + tracing + logs as a system
- Datadog experience is a must-have, or a very credible equivalent (Prometheus/Grafana + OpenTelemetry + ELK) with proof they can ramp fast
- CI/CD, release processes, rollback strategies
- Basic security and reliability hygiene (secrets mgmt, least privilege, rate limiting)
- CI/CD: Experience setting up and maintaining automated deployment pipelines
- Observability: Proficiency with monitoring and logging tools
- Source Control: Expertise in Git and collaborative workflows
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and streaming data processing
- Experience with security best practices in API design (e.g., OAuth 2.0, JWT, input validation)
- Knowledge of performance tuning and optimization techniques for both Python and Go applications
Benefits
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid time off (PTO) and company holidays
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development and training support
- Performance-based bonuses (if applicable)
Company Overview
RapidFort provides software supply chain security solutions for identifying and reducing vulnerabilities in containerized applications. It was founded in 2020, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.rapidfort.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
RAPIDFORT has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.