Software Engineer (Go / CDN)

Company Description

Have you ever wondered why your favorite apps, social media content, and video games load in the blink of an eye? It's likely because of Gcore behind the scenes!
Join a team that collaborates with industry giants like Intel, Dell, NVIDIA, Graphcore, and Equinix to accelerate AI training, provide cutting-edge cloud services, and optimize content delivery.
If you are passionate about transforming the internet and contributing to cutting-edge innovations, come join us at Gcore!
We are over 550 professionals and currently looking for a Go Software Engineer to join our Edge Network development group. You’ll be working with a team of highly skilled professionals using a modern tech stack and helping to continuously improve our products and how we work.

Job Description

Your Responsibilities:

• You will operate within an expert, product-oriented, cross-functional team to design, develop, deploy, monitor and maintain top-tier CDN and Edge Network solutions
• Lead or contribute to enhancing existing features, developing improved architectures, and introducing new features for our CDN, all with a focus on improving the customer experience, performance, stability and scalability. Some examples of what you could be working on:
  • Enhance our ability to instantly deliver configurations to hundreds of edge nodes
  • Optimize the way our CDN caches content, to lower the strain on our infrastructure and offer a superior experience to the end users
  • Refine the tools that deploy applications to hundreds of nodes globally
  • Upgrade our content purging subsystem to offer greater flexibility to our customers
  • Integrate with Gcore products such as AI inference and web protection
• Collaborate with other teams and stakeholders to clarify requirements, explore various implementation options, and address challenges
• You'll work with a modern tech stack, exploring ways to enhance our products' performance, reliability, usability, and observability
• Through regular retrospectives, you'll have the ability to shape the team's internal and external work processes and interactions

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of commercial software development experience with strong Golang knowledge
• Experience in handling systems with high traffic in a real-world production context
• Experience with cloud products development
• Strong Linux/Unix knowledge
• Experience with Docker, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL (or similar)
• Experience with observability tools such as Jaeger, Prometheus and Grafana or similar
• Experience of leading the development of a significant feature or product
• Product focused approach

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Kubernetes and CI/CD tools such as GitHub actions
• Experience with Nginx and/or Lua
• Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering

Additional Information

What We Offer:

We value our employees and offer a benefits package designed to support your health, well-being, and professional growth throughout your journey at Gcore:

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working hours
• Remote, hybrid, or office work options depending on your role
• Work from anywhere in the world for up to 45 days per year
• Private medical insurance for you and your family*
• 5 additional vacation days*
• Additional fully paid sick leave days*
• Allowance for significant life events and birthdays
• Language classes
• Modern office space with free snacks, drink and entertainment options*
• Team sports activities*

*Please be aware that this benefit may vary depending on your country.
About the Company
Gcore is an international cloud and edge leader in providing first-class web performance, content delivery, and security. Headquartered in Luxembourg, with offices around the world, the company provides its solutions to global leaders in numerous industries.
Millions of people worldwide use apps and play games based on our infrastructure and services: we are trusted by World of Tanks, Albion Online, Avast, Photon, Unity, Sandbox Interactive, and others.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We provide equal opportunity to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, disability, or any other legally protected characteristics.