Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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🕒 October 30

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $179k - $242k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Bluesky Social

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🔌 API

👥 B2C

💰 $100M Later Stage VC (Series B) on 2025-01

API • B2C

Bluesky is an open, decentralized social network built on the AT Protocol that aims to give users control over their timelines, moderation, and identity across the social internet. It positions itself as social media made for communities and creators, emphasizing open source infrastructure, public APIs, and a developer ecosystem for building custom feeds, clients, bots, and moderation tools. Bluesky is organized as a Public Benefit Corporation and focuses on interoperability, user choice, and preventing centralized ownership of social networks.

📋 Description

• Scale Go production services to hundreds of millions of users • Build mission-critical data infrastructure powering the AT Protocol ecosystem • Build services scaling across tens of terabytes of RAM, thousands of CPU cores, and petabytes of NVMe storage • Work on AT Protocol-oriented services running on dense, latest-generation bare-metal servers in company racks • Maintain systems serving hundreds of thousands of events per second

🎯 Requirements

• Strong fundamental programming and software engineering skills • Extensive experience with Go (e.g. 3+ years) • Experience building scalable backend systems (1M+ ops/sec) • Familiarity with the upper limits of operating systems, networks, and storage • Significant experience with database systems such as Postgres, MySQL, or SQLite • Experience with data stores such as Scylla/Cassandra, Redis, or ClickHouse • High ownership and production service operation standards • Ability to work on small, fast-moving teams • Read the AT Protocol documentation and want to contribute • Resume and links to GitHub, GitLab, or a portfolio of past work attached together • Must work with significant overlap of US/Pacific hours

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Fully remote work arrangement • Significant overlap of working hours with US/Pacific

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