BACKEND ENGINEER, IN TORONTO | RELOCATE TO CANADA WITH WORK VISA

Designing and developing all aspects of our products, including software architecture, deployment, and support.

Engaging with Buf's current and potential users in the Protobuf and gRPC ecosystems, to demo our products and gather user feedback.

Constant learning across a wide variety of technical areas, as needed, to solve emerging problems to bring our product to life.

Helping to identify and establish best-in-class engineering approaches and practices.

At least two years of professional experience in Go.

A track record of architecting robust and reliable, production-grade distributed systems, ideally using Protobuf and/or gRPC.

The ability to move quickly while managing trade-offs of performance, reliability, security, and code quality.

A bachelors or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Mathematics is strongly preferred.

Experience with one or more of the following: Kubernetes, Envoy, Postgres, GCP.

A track record of existing work within the Protobuf and gRPC communities.

Opportunity to join the team in its early days, take on major responsibility, and make meaningful contributions.

Work as part of an international team coming together to solve real-world engineering problems - Buf employees come from all over the world.

Extremely competitive cash compensation and equity grants for all employees - we pay US-level salaries, regardless of which side of the border you are working on.

Professional downtown Toronto office for optimal collaboration. Generous budget for remote employees to travel to Toronto for in-person collaboration and team building.

Canadian immigration support available to all successful candidates and their families, including permanent residency sponsorship when eligible (Toronto office only).