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# Senior Backend Developer, Platform/Infrastructure

- **Company:** Bluesky Corporation
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $270,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Programming, Databases, Data as a Services, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Stores, Elasticsearch, Email Filtering, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Software Engineering, SQLite, Load Balancing, Backend, Cassandra, Vertica
- **Published:** July 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=99e7c9963e17c7bd

## About the Role

* Must have 10 + years of extensive experience with Go
 * Have strong fundamental programming and software engineering skills
 * Have built scalable backend systems (1M+ ops/sec) (e.g. data services, load balancers, etc.)
 * Have familiarity with the upper limits of operating systems, networks, and storage.
 * Have significant experience with database systems (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, SQLite)
 * Have some experience with other data stores (e.g. Scylla/Cassandra, Redis, ClickHouse)
 * Have some experience with search systems (e.g. Elasticsearch)
 * Like working on small, fast-moving teams
 * Previous experience working on infrastructure for social apps at large scale

## Description

As a Senior Backend Developer, you'll be responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that powers moderation, anti-spam, and user safety. You'll work closely with our internal operations and product team to build high-scale services for rapid detection and prevention of abuse.
Responsibilities:

 * Design, implement, and maintain high-volume pipelines and databases
 * Manage and create ETLs that power automated abuse-prevention
 * Assist with the scaling and implementation of the backends for internal tools
 * Work closely with engineers across the organization to integrate safety systems in all our products
 * Develop monitoring and observability solutions for data infrastructure


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