Golang Spread Jobs in United Kingdom Paying 150,000 USD a Year

Job Description

About Weaveworks

Weaveworks was founded in 2014 and we are the company behind popular Kubernetes tools like Flux, Scope, the official CLI for Amazon EKS called EKSCtl and the flagship enterprise product Weave Kubernetes Platform.

Our mission is to help the world’s leading organizations to adopt Kubernetes and other Cloud Native technologies and working practices. Enterprises use our products and services to build better software and operate it reliably, at scale. Our approach brings together container-based application deployment, Kubernetes, and operations tooling in a model we call GitOps.

The role: remote in US timezones

We want to bring an energetic, empathetic and collaborative engineer into our team that enjoys having an impact on product and a focus on delivery.

This needs someone who is happy working as part of an agile team and who wants to contribute to the full software development lifecycle. From initial product feature idea through to backlog refinement, testing, customer feedback, and on-going support.

You will be helping to develop and maintain products and tools which make using cloud-managed and on-premise Kubernetes installations easy.

Requirements

What you’ll be doing:

• Hands-on development work in Golang
• Being in a team that:
  • Communicates proactively and has a team-first mindset
  • Contributes to an inclusive and collaborative environment
  • Builds and maintains services and components that power our core product
  • Likes to think about our end-users and cares about their experience. Is comfortable collaborating with others; UX, design, QA, Customer Success.
  • Is delivery-focussed and gets software shipped to our customers
  • Continuously building domain expertise and an appetite for learning
  • Improving performance and business scalability challenges as we grow our customer base
  • Comfortable being on a support rota; it’s reasonable and fairly spread across people.
• Collaborating with the product manager to:
  • clarify and refine issues/requests/features
  • contribute to sprint planning and sharing ideas
• Participating in wider Weaveworks engineering culture (lunch and learns/sprint reviews)

We’re looking for you if you:

• are comfortable being in a fully remote and distributed multifunctional agile team
• have Kubernetes experience, on premise or self managed as part of the public cloud providers
• have significant Golang coding experience preferably within a commercial or product focus
• have a team-first mindset and demonstrate curiosity
• like working in an agile environment and getting things done iteratively to make things better for our users
• enjoy communicating, collaborating, and helping each other out :)
• bring experience in building highly-concurrent, distributed, and highly-scalable systems
• are familiar with or have experience with one or more public cloud providers (Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).

We really want to hear from you if you:

• think this sounds cool and are unsure if you should apply, especially typically underrepresented folks, please apply anyway or you can also reach out to Mazz our senior engineering manager and she’ll do her best to msg you back.
• are excited by developer tooling
• want to contribute to making a corner of the tech industry be a more inclusive and welcoming place

Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off
• Flexible working hours
• Medical, dental and vision for yourself and family, 95% paid by WW healthcare plan
• Tax deferred flexible benefits plan
• Charity day (volunteer for a charity of your choice)

Job Description

At Elastic, we have a simple goal: to solve the world's data problems with products that delight and inspire. As the company behind the popular open source projects — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats — we help people around the world do great things with their data. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, our products are extending what's possible with data, delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots. The Elastic family unites employees across 30+ countries into one coherent team, while the broader community spans across over 100 countries.

The Beats platform is the basis for building open source shippers that collect all kinds of operational data, store it in Elasticsearch, and visualize it with Kibana. They collect data from edge servers, and are used to power application monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, and network monitoring. We currently have five official Beats: Filebeat for gathering logs, Packetbeat for network traffic, Metricbeat for metrics, Winlogbeat for Windows event logs, Heartbeat for uptime monitoring, and Auditbeat for audit data. In addition, the open-source community has created over 40 Beats, collecting data from all sorts of sources.

All current Beats are written in Golang.

As part of the Beats team, you will be responsible for maintaining the official Beats, for creating new ones, as well as for supporting the community around Beats. The team is diverse and distributed across the world, and collaborates on daily basis over Github, Zoom, and Slack.

• Write open source Golang code for maintaining different Beats.
• Dive into new technologies and figure out how to best monitor them.
• Define and create new Beats.
• Work with our support team to help customers.
• Answer community questions.
• Collaborate with other development teams, quality engineering team and documentation team to execute on product deliverables.

Skills you will bring along

• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related engineering discipline and 3+ years of industry experience.
• Experience creating system level software on Unix and/or Windows platforms. Windows programming experience would be great to have.
• Experience in Golang programming is a big plus, but not strictly required. Our team can teach you and get you up to speed.
• Strong experience having worked with C/C++ or other low level programming languages.
• Operational experience with monitoring systems would be very welcome.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a great teammate with strong analytical, problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to work in a distributed team throughout the world.
• Knowledge and experience in Elasticsearch, Logstash, Distributed Systems is a plus.

Additional Information:

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Stock options
• Catered lunches, snacks, and beverages in most offices
• An environment in which you can balance great work with a great life
• Passionate people building great products
• Employees with a wide variety of interests
• Your age is only a number. It doesn't matter if you're just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
• Distributed-first company with employees in over 30 countries, spread across 18 time zones, and speaking over 30 languages! Some even fly south for the winter :)