Golang (Proxy) Engineer - remote

SOAX
Posted 2 years ago
We Work Remotely

We are SOAX, an emerging company specializing in automated data collection services for companies worldwide. Our priority is to deliver the best experience with the product to our users and to ensure we update our databases constantly to allow our users to collect the data needed fast and secure.

Now we are looking for an experienced GoLang Engineer to participate in the development and growth of our proxy platform. You will work in collaboration with Product, Infrastructure, Business teams to evolve design and architecture. Proxy engineer will focus on core architecture transport layer (HTTP/S, SOCKS, QUIC protocols) and implementation business logic on application level (manage supply connections pool). You will work on ensuring stable and efficient operation client frontend service, communication with supply pools, scaling, load balancing. The team is tasked with delivering the new modern generation proxy services.
Our tech stack:
  • GoLang - as the main programming language
  • MariaDb - for storing data
  • Redis - for caching frequently used data
  • Kafka + Clickhouse - for collecting streaming data (events / system analytics)
  • Prometheus + Grafana - for collecting application performance metrics
  • Docker - for containerizing applications
  • GitLab - for storing the history of code changes
  • Redash - for monitoring product metrics
  • Maxmind GeoIP - for device identification
  • Slack + Zoom - for communication within the team
  • Notion - for maintaining product documentation
What You Need To Succeed?
  • 5+ years of experience
  • 2+ years of development in GoLang
  • Experience with relational databases (MySQL / MariaDB / Clickhouse)
  • Understanding of how runtime works (goroutines, channels)
  • Knowledge of the sync, atomic, io, net, flag libraries
  • Knowledge of profiling applications on Golang
  • Experience in writing microservices, understanding microservice architecture
  • Experience in developing RestFULL API
Nice to have:
  • Working with metrics and analysis of application performance
  • Experience with Docker
  • Experience with Kafka + Clickhouse
  • Understanding how TCP / IP works
  • Understanding how multiplexing works
  • Experience in deploying applications on cloud platforms (AWS)
What will you do?
  • Development of proxying services
  • Performance optimization, finding bottlenecks, refactoring
  • Writing Unit tests
  • Documentation creation
What we can offer:
  • You can work from anywhere you want, including flexible hours! Furthermore, we don’t promote work-life balance in the traditional sense. Instead, we believe in work-life integration and care about results above all else
  • Are you ready to wow the world? SOAX provides global opportunities to bring your creativity to fresh new challenges every day. We're a fast-growing startup and we have big goals! You will be able to help us achieve the next milestone in our journey
  • At SOAX you will thrive if you want to grow, learn, and stretch yourself. That’s why we provide learning and development budgets for courses and books
  • We know money talks, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits in GBP
  • Great team of enthusiasts to work with, we have a culture that emphasizes collaboration, energy, and openness so that newcomers will feel at home with us quickly. Our onboarding process is fast-paced but still supportive :)