Senior Golang Developer

Protecting one billion people from cyber threats? If you find this proposition more exciting than scary, come on board and grow with us. Whalebone is a global company working on user-centric cybersecurity products for telcos, ISPs, enterprises, public institutions, and governments that provide millions of everyday internet users unyielding protection from malware, phishing schemes, ransomware, and other malicious digital attacks without the need for them to download anything. Whalebone is headquartered in Brno, Czech Republic. At this point, Whalebone has 400+ customers in telecommunications and corporate sectors (A1, O2 Telefonica, Tele2, Panasonic, Bauhaus, and many others) around the globe. With over 160 team members of multiple nationalities, Whalebone ranked 22nd in Deloitte’s list of fastest-growing companies in Central Europe. We create cybersecurity products that people can actually use. We protect them against viruses and fraud on the network so that the users do not have to handle anything. Thanks to this approach, we already protect tens of millions of people worldwide. Become a significant part of an important and ambitious project as a Backend Developer with Go. Apply now and help us protect the online world around us! What will you do Working on new features of our microservices BE portfolioCreating/extending microservices communicating with each other using APIs (REST, gRPC) and using modern technologies for data storage (Elasticsearch, Clickhouse), messaging (Kafka, NATS), running in cloud environment (K8s, Docker)Creating small pieces to build a complex environment, but keeping things simple Our Tech Stack We leverage microservices heavily from day one of Whalebone, there is no legacy system. We containerize everything and orchestrate it through Kubernetes.We avoid cloud vendor lock-in and minimize the usage of any cloud provider-specific services. Our backend can be moved to any managed Kubernetes provider instantly.Backend is mostly based on Golang, PHP and Java microservices.The frontend team's main choice is Vue.jsThreat Intelligence with their data analysis and machine learning use cases mainly rely on Python.And our modules in the DNS resolver itself, as it is a high-performance component, are written in pure C.For various use cases of data analysis, we rely mainly on Elasticsearch and Clickhouse, for stream processing Logstash and Kafka and to understand that everything is working fine we observe Grafana dashboards providing us insight into the Prometheus stored metrics. Requirements We’re looking for experienced backend developers who are comfortable working with modern backend technologies and open to learning Go as part of their journey with us.Experience with microservice design and communicationSpoken English Why would you like to work with us? Meaningful job helping the company scale and shape a brand-new role20+5 vacation days, a rewarding financial package, performance bonuses, and the option to choose ESOP as a benefitOffice-based company culture with home office options, up to 4 sick days annually based on your selected working setup, and up to two weeks of Work From Anywhere each yearYou will be supported to learn, grow, and gain new experiences with usRegular events & teambuildings – grill, enjoy pub quizzes, or have breakfast with usYour opinion will matter to us – discuss your ideas and feedback directly with the CEO or CTO if you feel they should hear themMobile phone tariff available for friends and family membersAccess to the ALZA special benefits programMultisport Card available through the company program15% discount on all coffee products on the Coffeespot e-shopAccess to wellbeing support through Hedepy Position details Team: EngineeringWork setup: On-site, HybridLocation: Jezuitská 14/13, Brno, Czech RepublicJob type: Full-time