Remote Position
[Remote] Senior Software Engineer - Backend
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GoDaddy is empowering entrepreneurs with tools and services to succeed online. The company is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to build and improve its Internal Developer Platform, designing and shipping scalable services, APIs, infrastructure orchestration, AI-powered developer tooling, and unified developer experiences while mentoring teammates and supporting production systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship platform services and features used by 1,000+ engineers
- Contribute to the design of high-scale APIs, infrastructure orchestration, and metadata systems
- Build AI-powered developer tooling, including chat-based and agentic workflows
- Partner with infrastructure, security, and platform teams to integrate core capabilities
- Own the components you build in production — performance, reliability, debugging complex production issues, and on-call rotation
- Independently spot problem areas in your area of responsibility and proactively fix them
- Champion testing practices and raise the quality bar with your teammates
Skills
- Backend engineering with Node.js / TypeScript and experience designing APIs (REST, versioning, contracts)
- Experience building on AWS (ECS/Fargate, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, IAM)
- Full-stack development using React / Next.js
- Solid distributed systems fundamentals (data modeling, caching, consistency, system design)
- CI/CD and testing best practices (GitHub Actions, unit/integration testing)
- Comfort working in Scrum, with a genuine interest in improving both the product and the process
- Curiosity about AI tooling and a habit of integrating it into your daily workflow
- Experience with an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) or developer tooling ecosystem
- Familiarity with LLM/AI integrations, agentic workflows, or prompt engineering
- Exposure to ServiceNow / CMDB or enterprise metadata systems
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation)
- Knowledge of security and secrets management (Vault, IAM, compliance practices)
- Contributions to internal open source or technology working groups
Benefits
- Corporate bonus, subject to the terms of applicable plans and individual eligibility
- Equity awards, subject to the terms of applicable plans and individual eligibility
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)-retirement plan
- Paid sick time
- Paid flexible time off
- Paid parental leave
- Life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability
- AD&D insurance
- Mental health or EAP programs
- Remote or hybrid work options
- Paid holidays
- Paid Wellness days
- Tuition assistance
- Adoption benefits
- Surrogacy benefits
- Fertility benefits
- Dependent daycare and backup care benefits
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Financial education and advice
- Parental and wellness leave
- Healthcare
- Retirement savings program
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