Principal Backend Engineer (Go)

Join Stream, an API leader for chat, video, and feeds, powering apps like Strava and Midjourney for over a billion users. We build high-scale, reusable components using Go, CockroachDB, RocksDB, WebRTC, Raft, and Redis. Our global team of 120+ thrives on innovation and excellence. Visa sponsorship for NL and hybrid/remote (EU) options available. We offer a 10-week Go onboarding program for engineers from other stacks. As a Principal Backend Engineer, you will be a technical authority within Stream, shaping the future of our Go-based backend architecture. You will tackle our most demanding engineering challenges, drive long-term technical vision, and mentor senior engineers. Expertise in Go, distributed systems, high-scale data stores (CockroachDB, RocksDB), real-time communication (WebRTC), and consensus algorithms (Raft) is crucial. The ideal candidate is a visionary technologist with extensive experience designing and building massively scalable systems, and a recognized expert in the Go ecosystem.