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# Senior Backend Engineer ((Python / Go)

- **Company:** RapidFort, Inc
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Application Testing, User Authentication, AWK (Programming Language), Microsoft Azure, Code Review, Computer Programming, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Data Validation, Relational Databases, Linux, Distributed Systems, Django Web Framework, Domain Name System (DNS), Python (Programming Language), CURL, Log Analysis, MySQL, Networking Basics, NoSQL, OAuth, Query Optimization, Role-Based Access Control, Redis, E2e Testing, Prometheus, JSON Web Token, Data Streaming, Management of Software Versions, Openapi, Datadog, Data Logging, Sed (Programming Language), Okta, System Availability, Flask (Web Framework), Grafana, Caching, Indexer, Backend, Rate Limiting, Git, Fastapi, Event Driven Architecture, Containerization, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Deployment Automation, Grep, Vertica, Api Design, Restful APIs, Stream Analytics, Software Version Control, Golang, Programming Languages, Microservices
- **Published:** August 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pecfbxi474

## About the Role

We are seeking a skilled and passionate Senior Backend Engineer to join our team, focusing on the design, development, and maintenance of high-performance, scalable microservices. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Go (Golang), and a deep understanding of distributed systems architecture.

Essential Qualifications

Technical Skills

Skill Category Requirement Proficiency Level Programming Languages Python (Deep expertise with frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, or Django) Advanced Programming Languages Go (Golang) (Experience building robust, high-concurrency microservices) Expert Microservices / Architecture Designing, developing, and deploying RESTful APIs Expert Security Keycloak, API authentication, JWT Advanced Databases Realtime analytics (Clickhouse) Advanced Databases Relational databases (MySQL) including complex query optimization Advanced Databases NoSQL databases (Redis) Advanced Containerization / Orchestration Kubernetes for deployment and scaling Advanced Containerization / Orchestration Docker container build Advanced Testing Writing comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests Advanced

Core Experience

 * 7+ years of professional experience in backend software development, with a significant focus on building and operating microservices in a production environment.
 * Proven ability to work with and contribute to large-scale, distributed systems.
 * Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) for deployment, monitoring, and scaling., * CI/CD: Experience setting up and maintaining automated deployment pipelines
 * Observability: Proficiency with monitoring and logging tools
 * Source Control: Expertise in Git and collaborative workflows

Architecture & Design

 * Familiarity with event-driven architectures and streaming data processing
 * Experience with security best practices in API design (e.g., OAuth 2.0, JWT, input validation)
 * Knowledge of performance tuning and optimization techniques for both Python and Go applications, * Datadog experience is a must-have , or a very credible equivalent (Prometheus/Grafana + OpenTelemetry + ELK) with proof they can ramp fast

Platform maturity

 * CI/CD, release processes, rollback strategies
 * Basic security and reliability hygiene (secrets mgmt, least privilege, rate limiting)

## Description

* Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable backend microservices using Go
 * Collaborate with product managers and front-end teams to define API specifications and integration points
 * Ensure services are deployed, monitored, and scaled efficiently in a Kubernetes environment
 * Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and planning sessions
 * Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues, ensuring high availability and performance
 * Drive continuous improvement in development processes, tooling, and infrastructure

Must-have skills for a Senior Backend / Microservices Engineer (owner-level)

Production microservices ownership (not just "worked on")

 * Has owned at least 1-2 services end-to-end (design * build * deploy * on-call * incident fixes * scaling)
 * Comfortable with service boundaries, APIs, versioning, backward compatibility, SLAs/SLOs

System design & architecture (senior bar)

 * Can design systems with tradeoffs: latency, throughput, cost, reliability
 * Patterns: idempotency, retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, async workflows, queues, eventual consistency
 * Data design: relational vs NoSQL, caching, indexing, migrations, multi-tenant considerations (if relevant)

Strong debugging & problem-solving in real-world scenarios

 * Can take an ambiguous production issue and drive it to resolution
 * Uses a structured approach: reproduce * isolate * instrument * hypothesis * validate * fix * prevent

Linux fundamentals (practical, daily-use)

 * Confident with commands/tools like: ps/top/htop, journalctl, systemctl, netstat/ss, lsof, curl, grep/sed/awk, strace (bonus), log parsing
 * Understands networking basics (DNS, TLS, ports, timeouts)


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