Software Engineer, Go

Bluesky’s mission is to transition the social web from platforms to protocols. We’re building a federated social network where users have more power. Our team has decades of combined experience building distributed applications. Join us in building new forms of user-controlled social media.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend infrastructure
• Ship new features and enhancements
• Optimize existing systems for scalability, reliability, and performance

You might be a good fit if you have:

• 4+ years of experience with Go and backend systems
• Strong knowledge of data structures and software design principles
• Proven experience in building scalable and high-performance indexing systems, preferably for social media platforms or similar large-scale applications
• Familiarity with distributed systems, message queues, and microservice architectures
• Experience with networking, filesystems, and databases
• Experience working on large-scale systems
• Understanding of indexing and querying techniques
• Can work well independently, as well as on a team
• Like working on small, fast-moving teams
• Like learning and building new things

We’re especially excited if you have:

• Experience working on social media platforms or similar high-traffic applications
• Have a copy of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" and want to chat with the author

We’re a fully remote team, though an overlap of working hours with USA Pacific Time (PST) is required. For full-time roles we offer health, dental, and vision insurance. To apply, email hello@blueskyweb.xyz with:

• A resume or CV (link or PDF)
• A cover letter that tells us why you care about this problem and how your skills equip you to work on it (link or PDF)
• A link to your GitHub, GitLab, or a portfolio of past work