Staff Software Engineer (Golang)

About Stream

We power experiences for over half a billion users with our Feeds API & Messaging API.

Leverage Stream's Feed API to build the most engaging activity feed without worrying about the underlying storage technology. Advanced features such as aggregation, ranking, real-time and personalization enable your product team to optimize your app’s engagement and retention.

Position

Stream uses Go for our video SFU & chat API. We power chat for many large apps like Strava, Nextdoor, Patreon, IBM, Adobe and Midjourney. In addition to Go we use CockroachDB/Postgres, RocksDB, Raft and Redis. 

We are willing to train you on Go if you’re experienced on a different tech stack (we have a 10 week internal onboarding program focused on Go, scalability etc.). Solid engineering experience and motivation to learn is more relevant than prior experience with the language. Roles open from entry level to director/principal go engineers. Remote (EU) or Amsterdam (relocation and Visa sponsorship available). 

To get a feel for what we do you can have a look at our API tour: 

https://getstream.io/chat/get_started/

Salary range is around 80k Euro for entry level roles up to 160k for staff/lead level.

Why Stream: 

• High scale/ difficult engineering 
• Default alive. Startup growth opportunity with healthy revenue 
• Strong engineering culture. Engineering is what makes us succeed 
• All managers are hands on and capable engineers 
• Edge network of servers around the world 
• Great opportunity to learn and grow 
• Raised $58M from leading VCs (Felicis Ventures, Notable Capital, 01.Advisors, Techstars, Arthur Ventures), including backers like Dick Costolo (01 Advisors, ex-CEO of Twitter), Olivier Pomel (CEO of Datadog), Tom Preston-Werner (Co-Founder of GitHub), Nicolas Dessaigne (Co-Founder of Algolia) 

Your qualification

This role requires at least 4 years of backend engineering experience. We’re looking with someone with experience in 2 out of these 3 areas: 

• Experience with Go 
• Scalability/database/Redis experience 
• Experience with SDK development/ React/Swift/Compose etc. 

Will be a plus

• Experience with AWS or other cloud provider 
• Python (our AI runs on Python) and Rust experience 
• Message queues experience 
• Full text search experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• WebRTC experience 

What we offer

Stream employees enjoy some of the best job benefits in the industry: 

• A team of exceptional (and friendly) engineers 
• The chance to work on OSS projects 
• 28 days paid time off plus paid Dutch holidays 
• Company equity 
• A pension scheme 
• A Learning and Development budget 
• Commute expenses to Amsterdam covered or the option to use a company bike within the city 
• Fitness stipend 
• Monthly in-office chair massages by a professional 
• MacBook Pro 
• Healthy team lunches and plenty of snacks 
• A generous relocation package 
• An office in the heart of Amsterdam