Senior Golang DeveloperVerified as a real position

Who we’re looking for

• Senior-level backend engineering experience, including strong production Golang expertise 4+ years
• Proven experience designing, building and operating backend or data-processing systems in production.
• Strong experience with databases at scale; ClickHouse or another analytical database is a strong plus.
• Experience making architectural trade-offs and communicating them clearly to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Experience with cloud services and modern production environments; AWS, Kubernetes, Docker or similar technologies are valuable.
• Strong understanding of reliability, observability, testing, performance and operational concerns in distributed systems.
• Ability to mentor engineers, review designs and raise the technical quality of a team.
• Comfort working in a domain where requirements evolve and architecture must be shaped through discovery, iteration and stakeholder alignment.

What you’ll do

• As a Senior Golang Developer, you will provide technical leadership for new telemetry platform
• Partner closely with the Engineering Manager as a senior technical counterpart, providing architectural feedback, technical challenges and practical direction.
• Shape the architecture of a production-grade internal telemetry platform built around Golang services, analytical storage, resilient messaging and cloud services.
• Lead backend design for telemetry ingestion, validation, aggregation, APIs, alerting and dashboard-enabling services.
• Build state of the art observability solution for global streaming platform that serves millions

About the position

Join us and build a streaming platform used by millions. At Sky Czech Republic, we’re building the tech backbone behind some of the world’s biggest streaming services. Ever heard of Peacock in the US or Sky Showtime across Europe, including the Czech Republic? They all run on our global streaming platform — a shared technological core where each service plugs in its own content and brand. Our platform serves millions of users worldwide — Peacock alone reaches over 40 million viewers in the US. Thousands of engineers across the globe help shape it, and our Prague tech hub plays a key role. We don’t just keep things running; we actively push the boundaries of streaming technology together with teams in Lisbon, London, and New York. In Prague, we work across a wide range of engineering domains: frontend development (mobile, TV, and web), backend (Java), platform engineering, content delivery networks, video playback (Golang), and data engineering (Python). Whatever your focus, you’ll work on technology used at truly global scale. What is the plot? Our streaming platform is at the forefront of technology, leveraging modern video codecs, adaptive bitrate streaming, low-latency streaming, and support for live streaming. We deliver innovative features to users while ensuring we maintain world-class playback KPIs and streaming standards, regardless of the device or operating system. The Playback Experience team is building the next generation of observability and KPI automation for our global streaming platform. We want to give teams fast, trustworthy insight into playback quality, release impact and performance regressions at peak event traffic scale.

Benefits

• Global Impact: Work in an international environment on cutting-edge technology that scales globally.
• People-First Culture: We care about our people just as much as we care about the stability of our platform.
• Performance Bonuses: Earn an annual bonus based on your performance.
• Hybrid Work: Enjoy the best of both worlds with a mix of office and home working.
• Work-Life Balance: Flexible working hours to help you balance work and life.
• 25 days of holidays.
• 5 days of on-demand leave (sick days).
• 2 days of paid community volunteering leave.
• 1 day of paid leave for moving house.
• Wellbeing Allowance: 18,000 CZK per year to invest in your personal wellbeing.
• Fitness Perks: Get a fully covered Multisport card or a 950 CZK monthly contribution to a Benefit Card.
• Meal Allowance: 225 CZK per day to keep you fueled.
• Premium Life Insurance: Enjoy peace of mind with our premium life insurance scheme.
• Fun Perks: Free tickets to Universal Theme Parks.