Job Overview
Backend Go Developer – Data Infrastructure
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. As a backend dev, you’ll build data infrastructure that powers the Bluesky AppView and will be a critical part of transforming social media.
Working on Bluesky’s Go systems, you’ll be building and maintaining systems running on dense, latest-generation, bare-metal servers running in our own racks performing millions of queries per second.
Responsibilities:Scale our Go production services to hundreds of millions of usersBuild mission-critical data infrastructure that powers every API request Bluesky receivesBuild services that scale across tens of terabytes of RAM, thousands of CPU cores, and petabytes of NVME storage
You might be a good fit if you:Have strong fundamental programming and software engineering skillsHave extensive experience with Go (e.g. 3+ years)Have built scalable backend systems (1M+ ops/sec) (e.g. data services, load balancers, etc.)Have familiarity with the upper limits of operating systems, networks, and storage.Have significant experience with database systems (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, SQLite)Have some experience with other data stores (e.g. Scylla/Cassandra, Redis, ClickHouse)Have some experience with search systems (e.g. Elasticsearch)Like working on small, fast-moving teamsHave read the AT Protocol docs and want to contribute
We’re especially excited if you have:Previous experience working on infrastructure for social apps at large scale
We’re a fully remote team, though a significant overlap of working hours with US/Pacific is required. For full-time roles, we offer health, dental, and vision insurance.
To learn more about us, check out:bsky.socialatproto.com
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