SENIOR BACK END MICROSERVICES ENGINEER

- COUNTRY
- Ukraine
- FORMAT
- Remote

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Senior Back End Microservices Engineer for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in Ukraine. Our client is a cloud-native cybersecurity company that helps organizations automatically and continuously minimize the attack surface of their cloud workloads.

You'll join the team, focusing on the design, development, and maintenance of high-performance, scalable microservices.

- REQUIREMENTS
- 5+ years of professional experience in backend development, with a significant focus on microservices in production.
- Strong knowledge of Go (Golang) for building high-concurrency, distributed microservices.
- Advanced knowledge of Python with frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django
- Proven experience designing, developing, and deploying RESTful APIs at scale
- Advanced k with Kubernetes (deployment, scaling) and Docker.
- In-depth understanding of relational databases (MySQL), including complex query optimization
- Experience with NoSQL databases (Redis) and real-time analytics (ClickHouse)
- Solid understanding of API security — Keycloak, JWT, OAuth 2.0, and input validation.
- Experience writing comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) for deployment, monitoring, and scaling.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows.
- Understanding of observability tooling: monitoring, logging, and alerting.
- Robust experience with Git with collaborative development workflows.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and streaming data processing.
- Strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration with product and front-end teams.

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS





P roduction microservices ownership (not just “worked on”) : Experience in owning at least 1-2 services end-to-end (design build deploy on-call incident fixes

- scaling);
- Be comfortable with service boundaries, APIs, versioning, backward compatibility, SLAs/SLOs.

System design & architecture (senior bar) :

- Knowledge of design systems with tradeoffs: latency, throughput, cost, reliability;
- Knowledge of patterns: idempotency, retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, async workflows, queues, eventual consistency;
- Understanding of data design: relational vs NoSQL, caching, indexing, migrations, multi tenant considerations (if relevant).

Strong debugging & problem-solving in real-world scenarios :

- The ability to take an ambiguous production issue and drive it to resolution. Expertise in structured approach: reproduce isolate instrument hypothesis validate fix
- prevent.

Linux fundamentals (practical, daily-use) :

- Be confident with commands/tools like: ps/top/htop, journalctl, systemctl, netstat/ss, lsof, curl, grep/sed/awk, strace (bonus), log parsing;
- Understanding of networking basics (DNS, TLS, ports, timeouts).
- Docker + container runtime competence
- Understanding of Dockerfiles, layers, multi-stage builds, image size/security;
- Experience with debug containers: env vars, volumes, entrypoints, networking, resource limits.

Observability/logging/diagnostics :

- Strong understanding of structured logging, correlation IDs,



trace context;
- Knowledge of metrics + tracing + logs as a system;
- Experience with Datadog is mandatory, or a very credible equivalent (Prometheus/Grafana + OpenTelemetry + ELK) with proof they can ramp quickly.

Platform maturity :

- Familiarity with CI/CD, release processes, and rollback strategies;
- Familiarity with basic security and reliability hygiene (secrets mgmt, least privilege, rate limiting).

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable backend microservices in 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 to ensure high availability and performance.
- Drive continuous improvement in development processes, tooling, and infrastructure.

WE OFFER

- US and EU projects based on advanced technologies.
- Competitive compensation based on skills and experience.
- Regular performance appraisals to support your growth.
- Flexibility in workspace, either remote or in one of our development offices.
- Comprehensive medical insurance, including dental and massages.
- Personalized learning program tailored to your interests and skill development.
- Sport reimbursement program for onsite and online activities.
- Bonuses for recommendations of new employees.
- Bonuses for article writing, public talks, and other activities.
- 20 vacation days, 10 national holidays and 5 sick leaves.
- Maternity leave policy and family days off.
- Free tech webinars and meetups organized b

📌 Senior Back End Microservices Engineer (Naushera)
🏢 Svitla Systems
📍 Naushera