Senior Software Engineer - Backend

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At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.

This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings.  

This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands.

GoDaddy is not currently considering candidates for this role in California, Seattle, or NYC.

Join our team...

GoDaddy empowers everyday entrepreneurs to bring their ideas to life online. Our Authorization Team plays a pivotal role in this mission, building cutting-edge internal IAM platforms that provide relationship-based access control (ReBAC) across GoDaddy's diverse product portfolio. As a senior member of our small, dynamic, and distributed team, you'll have the opportunity to solve complex problems at the intersection of distributed systems, data modeling, and security. This high-leverage platform impacts multiple product lines company-wide, offering you the chance to drive architectural decisions, mentor talented engineers, and shape the future of authorization at scale. Join us in building secure, collaborative solutions that enable innovation across GoDaddy's ecosystem.

What you'll get to do…

• Technical Leadership: Design and implement major platform capabilities using Java (Spring) and Golang; author ADRs/RFCs and guide technical reviews.
• Performance & Reliability: Drive performance improvements, establish SLOs, optimize latency for high-volume NoSQL solutions, and lead incident response.
• Cross-team Collaboration: Lead integrations with product teams, create technical documentation, and apply modern identity standards (OAuth, OpenID).
• Mentorship: Mentor team members, reduce operational toil through automation, and establish best practices.
• Quality & Innovation: Write maintainable code, perform code reviews, and propose innovative solutions.

Your experience should include…

• Leading technical initiatives on large-scale, high-volume platforms.
• Strong backend development in Java (Spring) and Golang.
• Performance optimization in distributed systems.
• Relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL database experience.
• Technical design documentation (RFCs/ADRs) and architectural leadership.
• Systems thinking and distributed systems debugging.

You may also have…

• Identity standards (OAuth, OpenID, Zanzibar-style authorization, ReBAC).
• Platform tools and developer-friendly APIs/SDKs.
• Observability, metrics, and incident response.
• Container orchestration, CI/CD, gRPC, message queues.
• Security fundamentals and threat modeling.

We've got your back...  We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way. 

About us...  GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us. 

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to [email protected]. 

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