Position: Staff Engineer, Admin
Location: Remote
Work Auth: Unable to sponsor
Duration: Perm
Background check?: Yes
Interview Process/# of Rounds:
- Hiring Manager Interview
- Coding round
- Design round
- Final team fit/leadership round
Top 3 Skills:
- Backend expertise (Golang)
- Strong Golang backend development is core
- This is the primary backend language they’re using
- Frontend engineering (React)
- Solid experience with React for the UI layer
- Full-stack capability is important
- Cloud / AWS ecosystem
- Strong experience with AWS infrastructure
- Specifically mentioned:
- Overall comfort with standard AWS architecture
The Role
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to build new and maintain existing products in GoGuardian’s Safety product suite . In this role, you’ll contribute to the full software development lifecycle, from conception, research, definition, scoping, planning, implementation, and testing, to documentation, delivery and maintenance. This position sits on the Admin Team, GoGuardian Admin delivers a single, unified interface for setting filtering policies and reporting across ChromeOS, Windows, and macOS devices. Powerful DNS-protection helps schools comply with CIPA across BYOD, guest networks, and unmanaged devices, all managed from the same dashboard. The ideal candidate is curious, able to manage risk, and driven to deliver quality software.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team toward feature delivery; Working both independently and in pairs/groups with others of varying skill levels
- Leverage strong problem solving skills to apply existing knowledge and experience to new problems and creative solutions
- Write production-grade code for well-scoped features with the help of code reviewers
- Understand, implement and contribute to GoGuardian’s best practices, including style guides, standards, code reviews, documentation management, and operational workflows
- Being generally available to work during standard working hours and to participate in an on-call rotation for production application support
- Work closely with Product Management to create new features and products.
- Lead the application architecture decision making process.
- Champion AI adoption across engineering by defining best practices and driving effective use of AI in development workflows to improve velocity, quality, and customer impact.
- Continuously experiment with and operationalize AI tools to accelerate innovation, improve productivity, mentor teams on AI usage, and help shape the company’s AI engineering culture and strategy.
- Take part in short and long term planning.
- Build & operate AWS infrastructure
- Monitor and track performance and reliability of our services and software to meet promised SLA
- Mentor other developers to increase the overall performance of the team.
Who You Are
- 8+ years experience as a software engineer of SaaS applications and or working on customer facing products
- Competency in one or more languages. Experience with Go, Javascript, React, and MySQL preferred
- Competency with Kafka or other Event Sourcing Systems
- Direct involvement in shipping at least one production application / product
- Experience with monitoring, performance optimization, technical documentation, and unit / integration testing
- Up-to-date knowledge of full stack web development languages, libraries, and technology
- Writes production-grade code for well-scoped features; integrating feedback from code reviewers
- Learns quickly, applies existing knowledge to new challenges and is building proficiency in relevant technical skills
- Confident in making technical decisions and explaining the reasoning behind them
- Have deployed software utilizing AWS, Terriform, Kubernetes, Docker, and/or other similar technology.
- Can drive automation adoption and enhancement in areas such as Test Automation, Github Runners, CI/CD platforms, and other automation platforms
- Can drive change beyond the scope of the team.
Nice to Have
- An interest in Machine Learning and AI technology
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