Golang Developer & VPN Architect

About the Role

We are seeking a hands-on VPN Backend Architect to lead our backend team while remaining actively involved in development. You'll set technical direction for our backend platform, guide an engineering team, and spend roughly 70% of your time writing Golang code. You'll own architecture decisions for distributed services that need to be fast, reliable, and secure at scale, while partnering closely with our SDK team to deliver client features end-to-end.

This role suits someonewho wants to design secure,scalable systems and write the code that runs them.

Responsibilities:

• Define and evolve the architecture of our backend platform serving connections from millions of users
• Design and build highly available distributed services in Golang
• Set technical direction on scalability, reliability, and performance targets, and drive the team to meet them
• Partner with the SDK team to integrate client features cleanly into backend systems Lead code reviews and champion testing discipline, clean architecture, and engineering best practices
• Mentor engineers and grow the technical depth of the team
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and product team, ship reliable products

Requirements:

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with 3+ years in Golang
• Track record of designing and operating distributed systems at scale
• Deep understanding of networking protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, etc)
• Experience with VPN protocols (WireGuard, OpenVPN, IPsec),tunneling, NAT traversal, and low-latency networking
• Working knowledge of cryptography fundamentals, threat modeling methodologies, and secure coding practices
• Strong API design skills with experience defining clear, durable interfaces between services
• Strong Linux development experience
• Production experience on AWS (EC2,EKS, S3, and managed databases like Aurora or RDS)
• Understanding of container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and collaboration skills