USD per year
Sr Backend Engineer, Platform Engineering - Network Data
Remote – United States
Who we are
Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.
What we do
Kentik's Platform Engineering group is responsible for storing, enriching, and querying traffic metadata and metrics from the world's largest networks. Our platform actively monitors infrastructure, triggers automated responses to outages and attacks, and is critical to delivering complete network observability to our customers. Our platform ingests trillions of records and serves hundreds of thousands of queries for our users each day. The scale that this group services is tremendous. Platform Engineering consists of 4 teams; (1) Ingest and Storage, (2) Query, (3) Network Data, (4) SRE. As a senior engineer in platform engineering on the Network Data Team, you will have the opportunity to co-own, design, and scale a high-performance, data-intensive platform that processes the network monitoring data from the most influential companies on the internet. We have built a team of world-class engineers, network experts, and technology thought leaders in a remote-friendly culture from day one. While prior experience in a remote environment is not required, we highly value strong collaboration and communication skills, and a high level of independence and autonomy.
What you'll do
Our Network Data Team is seeking an experienced backend engineer to scale our network data observability portions of our platform. You will work closely with customer service, product, and other engineering teams to develop new network data observability features.
- Work as an Individual Contributor to improve our network data observability services to meet customer demands.
- Collaborate with other engineer teams, support, and sales teams.
- Work on high-visibility, challenging engineering problems
What you'll bring
Studies have shown that some candidates tend to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you meet most of the criteria - even if you dont match all of the qualifications, your skills and experience could be valuable in this role!
- 5+ years of experience in backend development using Go, with a strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and high-throughput data pipelines
- Experience building scalable REST/gRPC APIsand Kafka-based streaming pipelines is a plus
- Experience in network management or network data analytics
- Basic understanding of network observability topics like IPFIX/Netflow/sflow, SNMP, IP (v4/v6) allocation, BGP, DNS, etcand the network domainand use cases
- A passion to grow personallyand contribute to our team
- Strong collaboration skills
Our tech stack
Our core data engineand platform are primarily written in Go We use Node.js + Express for application serving,and React as our primary UI framework We also use some JSand Python for tooling/scripting In addition to our own database,we use Postgres,Kafka,Mysql,and Redis Internaland public APIs expose both rest/jsonand gRPC endpoints Haproxy,Envoy for API traffic routingand balancing
Kentik was founded by long-time network operators to provide a scalable, powerful, and easy-to-use network intelligence solution.
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