Senior Go Platform Developer

Bloomreach is the world’s #1 Commerce Experience Cloud, empowering brands to deliver customer journeys so personalized, they feel like magic. It offers a suite of products that drive true personalization and digital commerce growth, including:

• Discovery, offering AI-driven search and merchandising
• Content, offering a headless CMS
• Engagement, offering a leading CDP and marketing automation solutions

Together, these solutions combine the power of unified customer and product data with the speed and scale of AI optimization, enabling revenue-driving digital commerce experiences that convert on any channel and every journey. Bloomreach serves over 850 global brands including Albertsons, Bosch, Puma, FC Bayern München, and Marks & Spencer. Bloomreach recently raised $175 million in a Series F funding round, bringing its total valuation to $2.2 billion. The investment was led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management with participation from Bain Capital Ventures and Sixth Street Growth. For more information, visit Bloomreach.com.

 

We're constructing Bloomreach Discovery's next-gen Engineering Platform, designed for the various engineering teams powering our flagship product. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as Go, Kubernetes, Istio/Envoy, Terraform, AWS, and GCP, we're crafting an exceptional platform. Our aim is to stand out through intelligence, eliminating error-prone, manual tasks, and fostering innovation not only in our product but also in our workflows. With a steadfast focus on quality, we're committed to delivering swiftly and with pride in our platform.

Responsibilities

You'll be responsible for developing and managing our upcoming platform, Garuda. Built using Terraform and Go, Garuda runs on Kubernetes and AWS. It offers teams isolated workspaces for swift feedback on their CI pipelines. Additionally, Garuda handles networking complexities like service mesh and Kubernetes operations, allowing teams to concentrate on feature development. Your daily tasks will involve working with Kubernetes, Go, AWS, agile methodologies, scalability, real-time monitoring, open-source tools, automation, gitops, and CI/CD. Joining a committed team, you'll shoulder a diverse range of responsibilities to support Bloomreach, its clients, and partners.

Must haves

• A university degree (preferably in Computer Science or a related field of study)
• Extensive experience in programming platform and/or infrastructure level software products in Go, Java or C++
• Cloud (programming) experience with technologies/services like Kubernetes, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform
• Understanding of networking, architecture and core web technologies like load balancing, API gateway, web servers, HTTP, CDN, DNS and SQL/NoSQL
• Some understanding of and experience administering Linux

Nice to have

• Data platform engineering experience (Airflow, Kubeflow, Solr, Redshift, BigQuery)
• Programming experience with Kubernetes (Go client, CRD, Controller)
• AWS product experience (ELB, EBS, RDS, S3, Route53, AMI users, etc)
• Experience with running Kubernetes in production
• Experience with Terraform, Helm, Helmfile
• Experience with monitoring, logging, configuration (Sysdig, Prometheus, Grafana, Filebeat, Logstash)

What we offer

By joining our team, you'll enjoy:

• A challenging position with lots of growth potential: feel empowered and gain the support you need for personal and professional development.
• A Work from Anywhere philosophy: Work with a team of fiercely intelligent, international coworkers in our office in the heart of Amsterdam or work from anywhere! The choice is yours.
• A flat, non-hierarchical structure and open(-source) mentality.
• A commitment to excellence and the fierce loyalty with which we value our team members.

More things you'll like about Bloomreach:

Culture:

• A great deal of freedom and trust. At Bloomreach we don’t clock in and out, and we have neither corporate rules nor long approval processes. This freedom goes hand in hand with responsibility. We are interested in results from day one. 

• We have defined our 5 values and the 10 underlying key behaviors that we strongly believe in. We can only succeed if everyone lives these behaviors day to day. We've embedded them in our processes like recruitment, onboarding, feedback, personal development, performance r