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  • Architect and develop reliable, scalable backend services for a business-critical energy trading platform.
  • Leverage AI-assisted coding tools and TDD to accelerate delivery while maintaining high engineering standards.
  • Mentor engineers and collaborate with product and frontend teams to shape architectural decisions.

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Global

  • Design and develop reliable, scalable backend services and APIs in Go.
  • Build features for monitoring, observability, and management of database environments.
  • Work with OpenTelemetry, distributed systems, Kubernetes, and AI-assisted development.

Percona provides open-source database software, support, and services to enable everyone to innovate freely. We are a remote-only, globally dispersed team of experts across more than 50 countries with a collaborative, highly-engaged culture.

North America

  • Take deep ownership of key systems and product areas, becoming the technical expert and primary point of reference.
  • Architect, build, and maintain highly available and scalable REST APIs and backend services.
  • Use agentic development workflows and AI coding tools as standard engineering practice.

This partner company builds an AI-driven e-commerce messaging platform powered by customer context and data. It is a high-growth, remote-first environment with a collaborative and supportive culture.

$121,000–$142,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO 18w maternity 12w paternity

  • Build and improve customer-facing registries, APIs, and artifact-serving systems that make open source software easy to consume securely and reliably.
  • Develop and operate backend services in Go, focusing on scalability, reliability, observability, and performance.
  • Collaborate with engineers and product partners on design, code review, and solving production issues.

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source, delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of the software engineers and AI agents rely on. It is a venture-backed company serving Fortune 500 enterprises with a remote-first culture and a focus on customer obsession and intentional action.

Poland

  • Set the technical direction for the Marketplace migration to a monorepo.
  • Direct AI coding agents to ship production changes while owning design and quality.
  • Mentor senior engineers and partner with managers to multiply impact.

Docplanner makes healthcare more human with platforms for patient reviews, doctor search, and online booking. With over 2,500 employees and 90 million monthly patients, it keeps a startup mindset and embraces diversity.

Global

  • Own the architecture and evolution of APADCode's core backend platform and stateful AI interviewer runtime.
  • Design event-driven systems, coding execution infrastructure, and asynchronous pipelines for AI evaluation.
  • Build production-grade reliability, observability, and security across service boundaries and deployment workflows.

APADCode is an early-stage AI startup building live, adaptive technical interview infrastructure for evaluating software engineers. It is a small, founder-backed team focused on real hiring workflows and direct collaboration.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Architect and build robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.
  • Build a cutting-edge cloud-native platform on public cloud and automate resource management.
  • Improve reliability, security, and cost efficiency of cloud services.

ClickHouse builds a real-time analytics database platform and manages ClickHouse Cloud data plane end-to-end with compute, networking, and security. As a rapidly scaling global startup, the company operates across 25+ countries and fosters a flexible, remote-friendly culture with equity and healthcare benefits.

$120,078–$144,094/yr
North America 6w PTO

  • Own technical direction for Tempo, the open-source tracing backend, on multi-month initiatives spanning design, delivery, and operations.
  • Own major components like ingestion, storage, query, and metrics generation while driving operational excellence through automation and SLOs.
  • Mentor engineers and collaborate with product, staff, and community teams to evolve Tempo into a platform for observability products.

Grafana Labs builds Grafana Cloud, a managed observability platform trusted by 10,000+ organizations. We are 100% remote with team members in 40+ countries and a collaborative, open-source-driven culture.

APAC

  • Build and maintain Golang services, APIs, and Agent workflows for AI-generated market briefings and news updates.
  • Design high-concurrency, highly available systems for personalized content delivery with scheduled pushes within tight windows.
  • Monitor data quality, Agent workflow health, generation latency, and AI costs while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Binance is a leading global blockchain ecosystem behind the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and registered users. Trusted by 300+ million people in 100+ countries, the company has a flat, user-centric structure and a remote-first culture.

US 18w maternity 12w paternity

  • Build and improve customer-facing package registries, APIs, and artifact-serving systems for secure software consumption.
  • Develop and operate backend services in Go, owning projects from technical design through deployment and iteration.
  • Collaborate across engineering and product teams to enhance scalability, reliability, and observability of production systems.

This partner company builds secure, reliable systems for serving software artifacts at scale, including customer-facing registries and APIs. It is a collaborative, remote-first environment focused on engineering ownership and continuous learning.

$193,461–$291,000/yr
US

  • Work on core infrastructure powering Arbitrum, tackling distributed systems challenges and optimizing performance.
  • Collaborate with research, product, and blockchain engineering teams at the cutting edge of blockchain technology.
  • Establish backend architectural standards and drive technical roadmap for complex distributed systems.

Offchain Labs is a pioneer in blockchain scalability and security, building the Arbitrum stack that powers the leading Ethereum scaling solution. Backed by $124 million in funding, our team of thinkers and doers embraces new challenges and pushes boundaries.

$157,000–$184,000/yr
Europe UK United States 18w maternity 12w paternity

  • Own product features end to end, from design and implementation through rollout and iteration.
  • Extend agentic AI capabilities into customer-facing product experiences.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions while collaborating with Product and front-end teams.

This company builds next-generation products at the intersection of software supply chain security, AI, and developer tooling. It has a small, fast-moving engineering team in a remote-first environment focused on practical tools for developers.

US

  • Build and maintain scalable backend services, distributed systems, and APIs for the AgentControl product.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to improve GenAI workflows and drive architecture decisions.
  • Take ownership of production code, participate in on-call rotations, and optimize performance, reliability, and scalability.

LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that helps developers deliver and control software features safely. The company values humility, collaboration, and diversity, and is committed to building a high-trust, transparent team.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Enhance and scale a high-performance data onboarding platform to handle real-time data at petabyte scale.
  • Own and evolve infrastructure across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • Drive architectural decisions, improve deployment pipelines, and participate in on-call rotations.

ClickHouse is the company behind the open-source ClickHouse database, providing a high-performance database platform. It is a globally distributed start-up operating in over 25 countries, with a culture that values autonomy, innovation, and impact.

North America Unlimited PTO

  • Take deep ownership of systems and product areas, becoming the go-to technical expert for what you own.
  • Architect, build, and maintain highly available, scalable REST APIs and backend services across distributed systems.
  • Build agentically with AI coding tools, staying at the forefront of emerging AI tooling and practices.

Postscript is an AI messaging platform for Shopify brands, helping e-commerce marketers drive revenue through SMS marketing and AI features. Backed by Greylock and Y Combinator, the company has been fully remote since 2018 and serves 20,000+ Shopify brands with a culture of ownership and AI-first development.

$145,500–$235,400/yr
US

  • Design, implement, test, and operate production services and APIs.
  • Lead projects or meaningful components of projects from problem definition through deployment and iteration.
  • Improve the observability and operability of the systems you own, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and incident learnings.

LaunchDarkly provides a platform that helps engineering teams release software and AI with speed, safety, and control using feature flags and observability. The company is growing and emphasizes teamwork, humility, openness, curiosity, and inclusive collaboration.

US Europe

  • Build foundational platform services for AI products, including user management, authentication, permissions, and resource access.
  • Own full-stack features end to end, from backend APIs to customer-facing dashboards and internal tools.
  • Work remotely with technical autonomy, collaborating across engineering and product teams on scalable systems.

They build foundational systems that power a suite of innovative AI products used by millions worldwide. They are a high-growth, AI-first engineering organization with an autonomous, low-bureaucracy culture.

US

  • Lead architecture and delivery of enterprise software platforms, from discovery to production support.
  • Build secure, scalable solutions with Next.js, TypeScript, Go, and modern data pipelines.
  • Drive AI-assisted development, mentor engineers, and set technical strategy across teams.

A partner company is hiring a Principal Engineer to shape enterprise software platforms that support digital transformation. The team values innovation, collaboration, engineering excellence, and continuous learning.

US UK Canada Unlimited PTO 18w maternity 12w paternity

  • Own features end-to-end from design through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
  • Design, build, and evolve backend systems (Go, REST/gRPC APIs) for entitlement, policy, and customer onboarding services.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior and mid-level engineers.

Chainguard delivers hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of open source software to help organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. It is venture-backed by leading investors and serves Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders.

India

  • Own and evolve distributed systems architecture for platform services, ensuring reliability and performance at enterprise scale.
  • Drive cost optimization, observability, and incident management practices across cloud infrastructure.
  • Hire, mentor, and grow engineers while partnering cross-functionally to align platform capabilities with organizational needs.

HighLevel is an AI-powered business operating system that helps agencies, entrepreneurs and SMBs build, automate and scale their operations. With over 2,000 team members across 10+ countries, HighLevel operates as a global, remote-first organization built for speed and ownership.

US 24w maternity 24w paternity

  • Build next-generation backend services for Smartsheet's platform, solving distributed systems challenges.
  • Maintain core infrastructure and manage large-scale databases using AWS, Go, MySQL, Terraform, and Temporal.
  • Collaborate via mob programming, practice TDD, and utilize AI tools to improve productivity.

Smartsheet empowers teams to manage work and scale solutions, now uniting human teams with AI agents. We are an ambitious, collaborative company focused on high-quality engineering and collective ownership.