Software Engineer (Enterprise Experience, Backend) - Coder

As a Backend Engineer on Coder's Enterprise Experience team, you'll build the features that help large organizations run Coder in production with confidence. The team owns what administrators and operators need to run Coder well, covering scaling, upgrades, reliability, observation, reporting, accountability, and security.

You'll join a cross-functional team of backend, platform, and QA engineers who own the operator experience end to end, shipping features from design through production and partnering with product and design.

What you'll do here

• Build features end to end, from initial design through production rollout.
• Write database migrations that follow the team's patterns for schema compatibility and safe upgrades.
• Build observability, reporting, and audit features administrators rely on to monitor deployments.
• Build features that keep enterprise deployments secure, following established security practices.
• Help investigate and resolve scalability bottlenecks under production-like load, from database access patterns to concurrency in coderd.
• Help resolve backend issues surfaced by Coder operators and administrators.
• Document features thoroughly for reviewers and future engineers.
• Participate in code reviews, contribute to RFC-style design discussions, and join the on-call rotation.

What we're looking for

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Professional experience writing and shipping Go.
• Working understanding of Go's concurrency model, including goroutines, channels, and the sync package.
• Comfortable with SQL, schema changes, and writing migrations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including surfacing blockers and uncertainty early.
• Solid debugging skills, persistence, and the ability to escalate early when stuck.
• A self-motivated, analytical engineer who enjoys difficult technical challenges.

Bonus points for

• Experience investigating performance under real-world load, including debugging race conditions.
• Experience with observability, audit, or security features in an enterprise product.
• Experience with major cloud providers, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
• Experience building or operating distributed systems at a meaningful scale.
• Curiosity about the latest developer tooling.

Our tech stack

• Backend: Go, Postgres, Kubernetes, gRPC
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• General: GitHub, Slack, Discord, Notion