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# Senior Back End Engineer

- **Company:** ZeroTier
- **Location:** Utrecht, Netherlands (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Code Review, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Service Development Studio, Systems Integration, Backend, Web Technologies, Front End Software Development, Restful APIs, Serverless Computing
- **Published:** July 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.nl/details/5630324371

## About the Role

* Senior level experience building and owning distributed systems at scale
 * Advanced knowledge of Go service development and backend best practices
 * Willingness to work occasionally on modern web technologies and frontend frameworks
 * Extensive experience integrating with and extending backend REST APIs
 * Experience working in a team with a continuous improvement and learning mindset
 * Demonstrated application of security best practices in public facing services
 * Ability to write clear technical documentation and communicate effectively with team members
 * Experience in a startup or fast-paced environment is a strong plus

## Description

* Own the design and evolution of the public and internal APIs, ensuring speed, scalability and long term maintainability
 * Collaborate closely with other engineers to power great user experiences in our Central Portal
 * Develop and operate backend systems using PostgreSQL, PubSub, and OpenFGA, and other cloud-native services
 * Bake in security, testing and quality from day one to keep our public services safe and dependable as we scale
 * Improve and maintain our CI/CD pipelines and observability, helping the team catching issues more quickly and move fast with confidence
 * Act as a senior technical reference in the team, through code reviews, hands-on mentorship and fostering pragmatic engineering decisions and thoughtful architectural decisions

We encourage candidates from non-traditional backgrounds to apply, regardless of formal education, training, and certification. We value diversity of experience and perspectives on our team, and strive to maintain a culture that allows every team member to do great work, bring their best ideas forward, and align those efforts with company goals and practices.What We're Looking for


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