Summary
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A senior systems engineer with SRE expertise is sought for a scaling financial technology environment. You will design and operate production infrastructure while contributing directly to backend code, primarily using Go. The role offers deep technical exposure to authentication, security, networking, WebSockets, reliability, and operating-system-level systems.
Highlights
Highly technical senior role with compensation up to £130,000, strong hands-on ownership of production infrastructure and backend systems, and exposure to challenging problems across security, networking, APIs, and operating systems.
Description
Senior Systems Engineer (SRE Golang) to £130k
Are you an experienced Systems Engineer with a strong knowledge of modern software infrastructure and robust APIs?
You could be progressing your career in a hands-on Senior Systems Engineer at a scaling FinTech that is developing a fast, secure cross-border payments platform that is designed for ultra low-cost, near-instant money transfer at significantly higher transaction sizes than what's currently possible, with a mission to break down the barriers that have held back African businesses for decades.
As a Senior Systems Engineer you'll design and build the infrastructure that runs production applications while contributing directly to the backend codebase.
Working primarily with Go, you'll tackle technically challenging problems across authentication, security, networking and WebSockets, with the opportunity to understand and influence systems right down to the operating system level.
Reliability will be central to everything you do.
You'll design systems with the assumption that failures will happen, building resilient, adaptable and highly available services, working across performance, observability and security, using logs, metrics and traces to understand system behaviour and correlate technical performance with business outcomes.
You'll also work with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform and Kubernetes, with a genuine understanding of what sits underneath these abstractions.
Location / WFH:
You can work from home most of the time, meeting up with colleagues in the London office once a month.
About you:
You're a skilled Senior Systems Engineer with strong Go coding skillsYou have experience of designing and developing highly reliable, robust systems and APIsYou understand what is happening underneath the application and the infrastructure needed to support itYou have a strong knowledge of network, operating system and application level securityYou have experience with systems observability / SRE e.g.
logs, metricsYou have experience with IaC, Terraform preferredYou have a good understanding of Kubernetes and how it worksYou have a good knowledge of low level programming, Kernel separation, systems calls, bare metalYou are degree educated, having achieved a 2.1 or above from a top tier university in a STEM disciplineWhat's in it for you:
As a Senior Systems Engineer (SRE Golang) you will receive a competitive package including a range of perks:
Salary to £130kHealth, Dental and Vision cover for you and your familyNew MacBook Pro plus home office allowanceRemote working and family friendly cultureUnlimited paid time offApply now to find out more about this Senior Systems Engineer (SRE Golang) opportunity.
