Senior Go Platform Developer

• We're taking autonomous search mainstream, making product discovery more intuitive and conversational for customers, and more profitable for businesses.
• We’re making conversational shopping a reality, connecting every shopper with tailored guidance and product expertise — available on demand, at every touchpoint in their journey.
• We're designing the future of autonomous marketing, taking the work out of workflows, and reclaiming the creative, strategic, and customer-first work marketers were always meant to do.

We're constructing Bloomreach Discovery's next-gen Engineering Platform, designed for the various engineering teams powering our flagship product. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as Go, Kubernetes, Istio/Envoy, Terraform, AWS, and GCP, we're crafting an exceptional platform. Our aim is to stand out through intelligence, eliminating error-prone, manual tasks, and fostering innovation not only in our product but also in our workflows. With a steadfast focus on quality, we're committed to delivering swiftly and with pride in our platform.

Responsibilities

You'll be responsible for developing and managing our upcoming platform, Garuda. Built using Terraform and Go, Garuda runs on Kubernetes and AWS. It offers teams isolated workspaces for swift feedback on their CI pipelines. Additionally, Garuda handles networking complexities like service mesh and Kubernetes operations, allowing teams to concentrate on feature development. Your daily tasks will involve working with Kubernetes, Go, AWS, agile methodologies, scalability, real-time monitoring, open-source tools, automation, gitops, and CI/CD. Joining a committed team, you'll shoulder a diverse range of responsibilities to support Bloomreach, its clients, and partners.

Must haves

• A university degree (preferably in Computer Science or a related field of study)
• Extensive experience in programming platform and/or infrastructure level software products in Go, Java or C++
• Cloud (programming) experience with technologies/services like Kubernetes, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform
• Understanding of networking, architecture and core web technologies like load balancing, API gateway, web servers, HTTP, CDN, DNS and SQL/NoSQL
• Some understanding of and experience administering Linux

Nice to have

• Data platform engineering experience (Airflow, Kubeflow, Solr, Redshift, BigQuery)
• Programming experience with Kubernetes (Go client, CRD, Controller)
• AWS product experience (ELB, EBS, RDS, S3, Route53, AMI users, etc)
• Experience with running Kubernetes in production
• Experience with Terraform, Helm, Helmfile
• Experience with monitoring, logging, configuration (Sysdig, Prometheus, Grafana, Filebeat, Logstash)

What we offer

By joining our team, you'll enjoy:

• A challenging position with lots of growth potential: feel empowered and gain the support you need for personal and professional development.
• A Work from Anywhere philosophy: Work with a team of fiercely intelligent, international coworkers in our office in the heart of Amsterdam or work from anywhere! The choice is yours.
• A flat, non-hierarchical structure and open(-source) mentality.
• A commitment to excellence and the fierce loyalty with which we value our team members.

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More things you'll like about Bloomreach:

Culture:

• A great deal of freedom and trust. At Bloomreach we don’t clock in and out, and we have neither corporate rules nor long approval processes. This freedom goes hand in hand with responsibility. We are interested in results from day one. 
• We have defined our 5 values and the 10 underlying key behaviors that we strongly believe in. We can only succeed if everyone lives these behaviors day to day. We've embedded them in our processes like recruitment, onboarding, feedback, personal development, performance review and internal communication. 
• We believe in flexible working hours to accommodate your working style.
• We work virtual-first with several Bloomreach Hubs available across three continents.
• We organize company events to experience the global spirit of the company and get excited about what's ahead.
• We encourage and support our employees to engage in volunteering activities - every Bloomreacher can take 5 paid days off to volunteer*.
• The Bloomreach Glassdoor page elaborates on our stellar 4.4/5 rating. The Bloomreach Comparably page Culture score is even higher at 4.9/5

Personal Development:

• We have a People Development Program -- participating in personal development workshops on various topics run by experts from inside the company. We are continuously developing & updating competency maps for select functions.
• Our resident communication coach Ivo Večeřa is available to help navigate work-related communications & decision-making challenges.*
• Our managers are strongly encouraged to participate in the Leader Development Program to develop in the areas we consider essential for any leader. The program includes regular comprehensive feedback, consultations with a coach and follow-up check-ins.
• Bloomreachers utilize the $1,500 professional education budget on an annual basis to purchase education products (books, courses, certifications, etc.)*

Well-being:

• The Employee Assistance Program -- with counselors -- is available for non-work-related challenges.*
• Subscription to Calm - sleep and meditation app.*
• We organize ‘DisConnect’ days where Bloomreachers globally enjoy one additional day off each quarter, allowing us to unwind together and focus on activities away from the screen with our loved ones.
• We facilitate sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities for each other.
• Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers.*

Compensation:

• Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options are granted depending on a team member’s role, seniority, and location.*
• Everyone gets to participate in the company's success through the company performance bonus.*
• We offer an employee referral bonus of up to $3,000 paid out immediately after the new hire starts.
• We reward & celebrate work anniversaries -- Bloomversaries!*

(*Subject to employment type. Interns are exempt from marked benefits, usually for the first 6 months.)

Excited? Join us and transform the future of commerce experiences!

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