Job Description:

As aStaff Engineer, you will play a key role indesigning and building large-scale distributed systems and platform servicesthat power our core platform. This role goes beyond feature developmentyou willown system design, performance, scalability, and operational excellenceof critical services. You will work onhigh-throughput, low-latency systems, solving complex problems indata processing, service orchestration, and reliability engineering, while influencing architectural direction and engineering best practices across teams.

What will you do?

• Design and implement scalable, high-performance backend systemsusing Go, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and efficiency.
• Own end-to-end architecture and system design, including service decomposition, data modeling, API design, and inter-service communication patterns.
• Drive performance optimization initiativesacross services (CPU, memory, I/O, network), and identify bottlenecks using profiling and observability tools.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, including distributed system failures, latency spikes, and resource contention across multi-service environments.
• Build and operate systems leveragingKafka, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, and caching layers (Redis/Valkey)for high-scale workloads.
• Design and operate services incontainerized environments (Docker) orchestrated via Kubernetes or HashiStack (Nomad/Consul/Vault).
• Collaborate with Product, SRE, and Security teams to ensureresilient, secure, and production-ready solutions.
• Contribute to and driveengineering excellencethrough design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring junior engineers.
• Participate infull software lifecycle ownership: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• ChampionDevOps and You build it, you run it culture, including CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

What will you bring to Omnissa?

• Strong programming expertise inGo, with deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and performance tuning.
• Extensive experience buildingdistributed systems and microservices architecturesat scale.
• Strong understanding ofsystem design principles, including scalability, fault tolerance, consistency models, and trade-offs.
• Deep knowledge ofLinux systems, including processes, networking stack, file systems, and performance diagnostics.
• Hands-on experience withcontainerization (Docker)and orchestration usingKubernetesorHashiStack(Nomad, Consul, Vault).
• Strong experience withevent-driven and data-intensive systemsusingApache Kafka.
• Experience withdatabases and storage systems, includingPostgreSQL,OpenSearch, and caching systems likeRedis.
• Solid experience withcloud platforms, preferablyAmazon Web Services, including managed services (MSK, Aurora, OpenSearch).
• Proven ability toanalyze and optimize system performance, including profiling, benchmarking, and capacity planning.
• Strong troubleshooting skills acrossapplication, infrastructure, and network layers.
• Experience building and maintainingCI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows.
• 8 612+ yearsof software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend systems and distributed architectures

Location:Atlanta, GA
Location Type:hybrid
Travel Expectations:None

Education:Bachelors Degree preferred, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

Compensation: The typical base salary for this role is betweenUSD $164,512 6 $274,187per year and it may be eligible for participation in a corporate bonus program. Actual compensation offer may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, skill level, or other relevant factors. In addition to competitive compensation,Omnissaoffers a variety of benefits such as employee ownership, health insurance, 401k with matching contributions, disability insurance,paid-timeoff, growth opportunities, and more.