Senior Backend Engineer ((Python / Go)

RapidFort, Inc. Open · verified Oct 24, 2026

Remote United States Senior Backend Engineering

At a glance

Senior Backend Engineering role at RapidFort, Inc. Remote, United States · $140,000–$200,000 base.

SalaryStated by RapidFort, Inc.

$140,000 – $200,000

Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.

RoleBackend Engineering

SenioritySenior

LocationUnited States

WorkplaceRemote

Base pay$140,000–$200,000

PostedJun 3, 2026 · 4mo ago

Role brief

techroles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

Build and operate backend services in Go, covering design, implementation, maintenance and production support
Work with product managers and front-end teams to settle API contracts and integration details
Deploy, monitor and scale services through Kubernetes
Review code and architecture, join planning, and resolve production problems affecting reliability or speed
Improve development workflows, tools and infrastructure

What you bring

At least seven years in backend engineering, including substantial production ownership of microservices
Expert Go experience building concurrent services, plus advanced Python skills with frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask
A record of designing and operating distributed systems, with practical API, data and reliability tradeoff decisions
Hands-on Kubernetes and Docker skills, along with cloud deployment experience on AWS, Azure or GCP
Datadog experience, or a demonstrable equivalent using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry and ELK

Who this fits

This is a senior, hands-on backend role for someone who has owned services through deployment and production incidents, not only contributed code. The role is remote in the United States.

From the employer

Senior Backend Engineer (Python / Go)

Overview

We are seeking a skilled and passionate Senior Backend Engineer to join our team, focusing on the design, development, and maintenance of high-performance, scalable microservices. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Go (Golang), and a deep understanding of distributed systems architecture.

Essential Qualifications

Technical Skills

Skill Category Requirement Proficiency Level Programming Languages Python (Deep expertise with frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, or Django) Advanced Programming Languages Go (Golang) (Experience building robust, high-concurrency microservices) Expert Microservices / Architecture Designing, developing, and deploying RESTful APIs Expert Security Keycloak, API authentication, JWT Advanced Databases Realtime analytics (Clickhouse) Advanced Databases Relational databases (MySQL) including complex query optimization Advanced Databases NoSQL databases (Redis) Advanced Containerization / Orchestration Kubernetes for deployment and scaling Advanced Containerization / Orchestration Docker container build Advanced Testing Writing comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests Advanced

Core Experience

7+ years of professional experience in backend software development, with a significant focus on building and operating microservices in a production environment.
Proven ability to work with and contribute to large-scale, distributed systems.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) for deployment, monitoring, and scaling.

Desired Qualifications

Process & Tools

CI/CD: Experience setting up and maintaining automated deployment pipelines
Observability: Proficiency with monitoring and logging tools
Source Control: Expertise in Git and collaborative workflows

Architecture & Design

Familiarity with event-driven architectures and streaming data processing
Experience with security best practices in API design (e.g., OAuth 2.0, JWT, input validation)
Knowledge of performance tuning and optimization techniques for both Python and Go applications

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable backend microservices using Go
Collaborate with product managers and front-end teams to define API specifications and integration points
Ensure services are deployed, monitored, and scaled efficiently in a Kubernetes environment
Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and planning sessions
Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues, ensuring high availability and performance
Drive continuous improvement in development processes, tooling, and infrastructure

Must-have skills for a Senior Backend / Microservices Engineer (owner-level)

Production microservices ownership (not just “worked on”)

Has owned at least 1–2 services end-to-end (design → build → deploy → on-call → incident fixes → scaling)
Comfortable with service boundaries, APIs, versioning, backward compatibility, SLAs/SLOs

System design & architecture (senior bar)

Can design systems with tradeoffs: latency, throughput, cost, reliability
Patterns: idempotency, retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, async workflows, queues, eventual consistency
Data design: relational vs NoSQL, caching, indexing, migrations, multi-tenant considerations (if relevant)

Strong debugging & problem-solving in real-world scenarios

Can take an ambiguous production issue and drive it to resolution
Uses a structured approach: reproduce → isolate → instrument → hypothesis → validate → fix → prevent

Linux fundamentals (practical, daily-use)

Confident with commands/tools like: ps/top/htop, journalctl, systemctl, netstat/ss, lsof, curl, grep/sed/awk, strace (bonus), log parsing
Understands networking basics (DNS, TLS, ports, timeouts)

Docker + container runtime competence

Can explain Dockerfiles, layers, multi-stage builds, image size/security
Debug containers: env vars, volumes, entrypoints, networking, resource limits

Observability / logging / diagnostics

Strong in structured logging, correlation IDs, trace context
Metrics + tracing + logs as a system
Datadog experience is a must-have , or a very credible equivalent (Prometheus/Grafana + OpenTelemetry + ELK) with proof they can ramp fast