Backend Engineer – Platform – Stacks | Ireland | Remote

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential observability platform organization in their search for a Backend Engineer - Platform to join their Application Core Services team. This is a fully remote position open to candidates located in the UK, Germany, Spain, Ireland, and Sweden.

Our client operates at significant scale, serving thousands of organizations globally with cloud-based infrastructure solutions. The Platform team builds the essential systems that drive business operations and customer workflows, working at the intersection of product, platform, and operational excellence.

What You'll Be Responsible For

You'll join the Stacks squad, which owns the control-plane systems that create, configure, reconcile, migrate, and operate cloud environments at scale. Your work will directly impact how customer-facing environments connect to backend services and maintain alignment across distributed infrastructure.

• Design, build, and operate reconciliation systems to track desired state, detect drift, and repair configuration misalignment across distributed services
• Collaborate across backend services and deployment configurations to ensure lifecycle workflows remain reliable, observable, and resilient
• Improve operational efficiency by reducing deployment complexity and contributing to state reconciliation projects
• Manage rollout mechanisms for provisioned plugins, dashboards, data sources, and configuration updates
• Support new region and cluster rollouts, including operational paths required to bring environments online safely
• Improve incident response and recovery paths for reconciliation failures, plugin rollout issues, and integration problems
• Partner with Product, Infrastructure, Support, and adjacent teams on customer-impacting lifecycle work
• Contribute to roadmap planning, technical design, on-call improvements, and long-term simplification of operations
• Own production behavior of systems you build, including runbooks, dashboards, alerts, and recovery procedures

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

• At least 1 year of fully remote work experience
• Experience working on a SaaS platform with familiarity with distributed systems concepts (scalability, multi-tenancy, high availability)
• Professional experience with Golang and willingness to work across backend service and application code
• Deep care for developer and user experience and product quality
• Experience contributing to project delivery from initial brainstorming through shipping to customers
• Ability to write clean, well-tested software that other engineers can understand, operate, and maintain
• Capability to take on well-defined tasks, break them down, and execute iteratively
• Willingness to collaborate across teams and align work with stakeholder needs
• Familiarity with Kubernetes in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and exposure to infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet)
• Experience participating in blameless incident response and post-incident reviews

Bonus qualifications:

• Experience with TypeScript/Node.js
• Experience with Kubernetes control-plane patterns, operators, reconcilers, or desired-state systems
• Experience with Jsonnet/Tanka, Terraform, Flux, Argo, or similar deployment/configuration tooling
• Experience working on SaaS provisioning, tenancy, regional expansion, or customer lifecycle systems
• Experience with incident response involving configuration drift, partial failure, or cross-service state mismatch

This role operates in a remote-first, globally distributed environment where you'll collaborate asynchronously across time zones. You should thrive on building production systems where correctness, scalability, and operational clarity are paramount. The ideal candidate enjoys solving challenges related to stateful systems, eventual consistency, and reconciliation loops.

How We Work With You

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai partners with leading technology organizations to connect exceptional engineering talent with career-defining opportunities. Here's our process:

• Apply through the Get A Job.ai platform with your updated resume and relevant work samples
• A recruiter from our team will conduct an initial screening to understand your background and assess alignment
• We'll prepare and submit your profile to our client for consideration
• If selected, our client will conduct their own interview process directly
• We'll support you throughout the entire journey, from application through offer negotiation

Important: Please apply only through Get A Job.ai. Do not attempt to contact the client directly, as this may disqualify your application.

Pay

For candidates located in Ireland, the base compensation range for this role is EUR 81,000 - EUR 102,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. The position also includes equity participation through Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

If you are applying from a different location (UK, Germany, Spain, or Sweden), our recruiter will discuss your specific market's defined pay range during the initial screening.

Equal Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to equal opportunity employment. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on race, color, nationality, origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.