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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Harrison Clarke
- **Location:** Boston, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Infrastructure, Data Systems, Service Design, Data Streaming, Cloud Platform System, Real Time Systems, Apache Spark, Data Lakes, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Golang
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_6575b1d9a65916024a0c9921f261e6c3

## About the Role

* Deep Golang expertise. You've shipped and scaled production Go systems and have strong opinions on concurrency, performance, and clean service design.
 * Hands-on Kubernetes. You've run real workloads on K8s in production, not just deployed to it.
 * Data systems at scale. Streaming, batch pipelines, data lakes, or real-time processing. Experience with tools like Kafka, Spark, Flink, or similar is a strong plus.
 * 8+ years in backend engineering, with a track record of owning systems end to end.
 * A builder's mindset. You do your best work when the whiteboard is blank, and you'd rather ship v1 than inherit v7.

## Description

* High-performance Go services that sit at the center of the product. They'll be built for concurrency, low latency, and real-world scale.
 * Cloud-native infrastructure on Kubernetes. You'll shape how services are deployed, scaled, and observed, and set the patterns the rest of engineering follows.
 * Data platform. High scale
 * The technical direction. As a Staff engineer, you'll make the architecture calls, mentor senior engineers, and work directly with the founders and engineering leadership on what gets built and why.