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YD-4611 Mid-level Recently added

Cloud Security Software Engineer

Germany
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Develops Go services for cloud-security workflows, including vulnerability analyzers spanning multiple operating systems and programming languages. Works with Kubernetes cluster monitoring, container troubleshooting, and policy evaluation for vulnerability management.

  • Kafka asynchronous messaging
  • IBM MQ integrations
  • OpenShift deployment workflows
  • Dynatrace service monitoring
GoJavaBackend DevelopmentVulnerability AnalysisVulnerability ResearchCloud Security
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AA-7108 Staff Recently added

Software Engineer (Game Operations)

United Kingdom
9 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Engineered Go and gRPC microservices with Kafka-backed distributed pipelines supporting live workloads of up to 100,000 concurrent users. Refactored C# monoliths into cloud-native services across AWS, GCP, and Azure, with emphasis on reliability and observability.

  • RabbitMQ event processing
  • Redis-backed high-frequency data flows
  • Terraform Kubernetes infrastructure
  • Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger monitoring
GoGo FiberGo GingRPCC#C/C++
Interviewing now £45k-60k/yr
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#HIRED Staff Recently hired

Lead Backend Developer

Switzerland
7 years
Remote
Employee
Experienced software engineer with strong background in distributed systems and cloud-native architecture. Proven track record delivering production systems at scale. Skilled in designing fault-tolerant services, optimising CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring junior developers across cross-functional teams.
  • Led migration of monolithic system to microservices architecture
  • Built high-throughput data pipeline processing 1M+ events per second
  • Designed and implemented real-time monitoring and alerting platform
GoGinKafkaDockerKubernetesTerraformRedisPostgreSQL
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EA-5225 Lead

Chaos Engineer

Romania
22 years
Remote
Freelancer

Engineers resilience testing platforms across bare metal, OpenStack, Kubernetes, AWS, and serverless environments. Designs controlled failure experiments covering network impairment, node disruption, EC2 and availability-zone failures, Lambda timeouts, dependency failures, and downstream degradation.

  • Linux tc/netem network injection
  • AWS FIS EC2 termination scenarios
  • DaemonSet-based node disruption
  • Blast-radius and failure-parity automation
Chaos EngineeringAmazon Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS)LitmusChaosFailure InjectionResilience TestingDistributed Systems
Interviewing now $45-60/hr
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HJ-1328 Principal

Lead Golang & Cloud Engineer

United States
25 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Architected a Golang LLM inference proxy with OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs, integrating Qdrant vector retrieval for retrieval-augmented generation. Designs high-throughput cloud platforms spanning event-driven services, large-scale data engineering, and distributed systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

  • Automated refactoring, test generation, and code review with Claude Code
  • Applied OpenSpec workflows for spec-driven development
  • Built Parquet and PySpark data lake pipelines
  • Implemented Kubernetes operators and GitOps deployment patterns
GolangClaude CodeOpenSpecDistributed SystemsConcurrencygRPC
Interviewing now $180k-210k/yr
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JH-7674 Senior

Senior Backend Engineer

Germany
8 years
Hybrid
Employee / Freelancer

Operates fault-tolerant Go microservices on AWS and Kubernetes for a verification platform serving millions of merchants. Designed Kafka consumers with at-least-once semantics, deduplication, retries, dead-letter handling, and provider abstractions for KYC/KYB integrations.

  • gRPC API design
  • DynamoDB persistence
  • Terraform infrastructure provisioning
  • 75% authentication-cost reduction
GoSwiftObjective-CSQLAWSTerraform
Available in 2 months $80k-100k/yr
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AR-2105 Staff

Software Engineer II

United States
10 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Developed Go microservices for a high-traffic commerce platform, including a product data service sustaining 5,000 requests per second with peaks near 20,000. Built Pub/Sub ingestion and synchronization pipelines processing approximately 60 million records across Kubernetes workloads.

  • GCP Kubernetes production operations
  • Grafana k6 performance testing in CI/CD
  • Concurrency-driven throughput optimization
  • Legacy platform migration engineering
GoTypeScriptJavaScriptPHPVue.jsReact
Available in 2 weeks $130k-150k/yr
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AP-4412 Senior

Senior Backend Engineer

Hungary
6 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Built Go microservices for a distributed document platform serving approximately 110,000 daily users, using Google Cloud Tasks and Pub/Sub for asynchronous lifecycle workflows. Replaced synchronous REST flows with retry-safe event processing backed by PostgreSQL metadata, Firestore content, Redis caching, and RBAC authorization.

  • Implemented idempotent failure recovery
  • Deployed services across AWS and GCP
  • Built Prometheus production metrics
  • Developed REST and gRPC interfaces
GoNode.jsBashREST APIsgRPCMicroservices
Interviewing now $50k-65k/yr
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BP-7097 Principal

Senior Software Engineer

Spain
13 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Built high-reliability payment platforms and more than 200 microservice components using Go and Rust, alongside Web3 infrastructure, smart contracts, and cross-chain services. Maintains an open-source Go multi-agent workflow orchestrator and operates tier-one transaction-processing systems with failure-oriented deployment and observability models.

  • Kubernetes platform engineering
  • Prometheus and Grafana operational telemetry
  • Docker-based deployment automation
  • Cross-chain backend integration
GoRustPythonPHPJavaJavaScript
Interviewing now €100k-110k/yr
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JG-5836 Lead

Staff Product Engineer

Spain
22 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Architected a distributed enterprise data-exchange platform serving more than 600 applications across seven countries and approximately 70,000 daily transfers. Operated multi-petabyte streaming infrastructure across four production regions on OpenStack and AWS, and built an LLM-driven workflow execution product.

  • Designed hybrid-cloud data movement across regions
  • Built distributed API monitoring capabilities
  • Integrated natural-language flow creation and debugging
  • Developed GenAI-driven live workflow modification
GoDistributed SystemsCloud ArchitectureData EngineeringData Exchange PlatformsStreaming Pipelines
Available in 2 weeks €95k-130k/yr
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EY-3320 Principal

Founding Engineer

Netherlands
15 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Modernized a Go ingress router handling peaks above 15,000 requests per second for web, mobile, and AI-streaming traffic. Earlier work includes payment-processing systems and infrastructure/database migration that reduced recurring costs by more than 90%; also contributed signal.NotifyContext to the Go standard library.

  • PostgreSQL with pgvector
  • OpenTelemetry instrumentation
  • Pulumi infrastructure as code
  • Prometheus service metrics
GoPostgreSQLKubernetesDockerGoogle CloudAmazon Web Services
Interviewing now €125k-150k/yr
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EP-4267 Lead

Founder & Lead Engineer

Puerto Rico
15 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Modernized legacy advertising systems into Go microservices on AWS and Kubernetes while continuing to implement production code. Builds distributed data platforms using Rust, Go, PostgreSQL, event processing, and columnar formats, with recent integrations for LLM agents and local model serving.

  • Apache Arrow Flight pipelines
  • Parquet and S3 datasets
  • NATS and RabbitMQ messaging
  • Kinesis and Firehose ingestion
GoRustPythonJavaScriptNode.jsC#
Interviewing now $150k-205k/yr
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UN-9870 Senior

Backend Engineer

Israel
5 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Designed Go microservices for a recommendation platform handling more than 200,000 requests per second and over 100 million monthly users. Built Kafka and Redis metric aggregation with Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, reducing mean time to recovery by 40% through systematic production diagnostics.

  • API mocking and automation frameworks
  • Cloud-native Docker delivery pipelines
  • Python and Java service integrations
  • Production incident post-mortem workflows
GoJavaPythonSQLTypeScriptBash
Interviewing now $60k-90k/yr
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LY-6837 Senior

Senior Software Engineer

Portugal
8 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed and launched a public REST management API for a cloud database platform, including versioning, API-key and JWT authentication, rate limiting, OpenAPI documentation, Kubernetes deployment, and an autogenerated Go SDK. Built an open-source Terraform provider supporting autoscaling, private connections, autosuspend, scale factors, and cache configuration.

  • C++ software for heart-surgery planning
  • Customer-facing developer tooling
  • AWS, Azure, and GCP operations
  • Upgrade and maintenance automation
GoC++LinuxSQLDockerKubernetes
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JG-7153 Senior

Senior Backend & Cloud Systems Engineer

Bangladesh
5 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Built Go backend services benchmarked at 8,420 requests per second with 11.45 ms p95 latency and no observed errors, using PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, and k6 validation. Reduced cluster spend by 35% through custom HPA/KEDA autoscaling, Calico/WireGuard networking, gRPC services, and OpenTelemetry instrumentation.

  • Multi-provider LLM routing gateway
  • MCP servers and Claude development skills
  • OAuth2/OIDC multi-tenant authorization
  • PgBouncer connection-pool tuning
GoRustPythonTypeScriptSQLBash
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