Back-end Engineer, Udacity

• At least 3+ years of professional software engineering experience working hands-on in a product-oriented software engineering role, in live production code
• Strong background in building scalable and low latency systems
• Demonstrated expertise in designing, building, delivering, and maintaining production quality reliable and performant microservices
• Experience with languages or frameworks in general, but in particular with GoLang, Postgresql, Graphql, and the latest web protocols and security concerns
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment
• Passionate about your users’ experience and you feel, as we do, that online education can improve lives worldwide
• While this is a remote role, applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States of America on a full-time basis

Desirable

• The Udacity Platform and Core Services team is looking for Backend Software Engineers to build products to support the rapidly growing business demand of Udacity
• The Platform and Core Services team provides our internal customers with the tools they need to make sure their services and processes get the most from Udacity’s Platform
• Your work will impact internal and external customers, including Udacity Students all over the world and provide you with plenty of engineering challenges as we refine the experiences and infrastructure to handle new levels of flexibility and scale as we tackle this massive market
• Design, build, ship, and maintain new and existing microservices with production quality
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Participate in on-call rotation for production incident response
• Manage cloud vendor resources and services
• Maintain core internal APIs in support of application services