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Role Description

This Staff-level position is part of the Datto Endpoint Backup product group. The Staff Backend Engineer (Golang) will drive architectural direction, lead complex cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and ensure our backup and cloud services systems are scalable, resilient, and strategic.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building large-scale backend systems; expertise in Golang.
• Deep experience with gRPC, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience working on and developing for Linux.
• Expertise with PostgreSQL and Cassandra.
• Strong architectural leadership with microservices and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with QEMU/KVM, VMware ESX, Hyper-V.
• Strong testing methodology knowledge.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience building large-scale backend systems, with extensive proficiency in Golang (or comparable languages with the ability to transition quickly).
• Deep expertise in designing, consuming, and evolving REST APIs and gRPC for high-throughput and distributed environments.
• Strong experience building and operating containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes in production.
• Demonstrated experience designing resilient systems using relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and Cassandra.
• Strong command of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and event-driven patterns.
• Experience shaping technical strategy, influencing cross-team architecture, and making long-term design decisions.
• Ability to evaluate trade-offs across scalability, cost, performance, and operational overhead.
• Deep understanding of testing methodologies, including unit, integration, and load testing.
• Experience building observable systems (logging, metrics, tracing).
• Comfort working across Windows and Linux environments.

Benefits

• Join the Kaseya growth rocket ship and see how we are #ChangingLives!

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Strategy: Serve as a domain expert for backend systems within Datto Endpoint Backup and influence technical direction across product lines.
• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of high-performance, secure, and fault-tolerant backend services.
• Define and promote engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural frameworks.
• System Design & Feature Ownership: Own mission-critical features and subsystems—from concept to production rollout—and ensure operational excellence.
• Conduct deep design reviews, provide technical oversight, and guide teams through complex engineering challenges.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Management, SRE, Infrastructure, and other engineering teams to align on roadmaps, scope large initiatives, and balance business requirements with technical scalability.
• Participate in long-term planning, capacity forecasting, and technical roadmap creation.
• Mentorship & Organizational Impact: Mentor engineers across multiple teams through code reviews, design sessions, and technical coaching.
• Raise the overall engineering bar through knowledge sharing, internal talks, and documentation.
• Provide guidance in incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.

Technical Stack

• Backend: Golang, gRPC, REST APIs
• Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes
• Databases: Cassandra, PostgreSQL

Nice to Have

• Advanced CI/CD pipeline development (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Experience building Windows services or working with NTFS internals
• Experience with ZFS
• Experience with object stores
• Experience developing for macOS