Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Customer.ioNorth America, Latin AmericaSenior7+ years experienceBackend

Specialty

Backend

The role

Customer.io is hiring a senior backend engineer to build Go distributed systems that help customers send messages at scale. The role is remote for candidates in the Americas.

What you will do

  • Design and build distributed systems in Go
  • Own work from architecture and schema design to deployment and monitoring
  • Debug issues with other teams
  • Use AI agents for scoped multi-file changes

What they ask for

  • 7+ years building scalable distributed systems in Go or a similar statically typed language
  • Comfort with cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP)
  • Familiarity with relational databases such as MySQL
  • Experience with observability tooling and production operations
  • On-call rotation participation

What they offer

  • Stock options equity grant
  • Medical, dental, vision and mental health premiums fully covered
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Remote work and wellness stipends
  • Professional development budget

This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Customer.io's careers page behind the apply button.

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