Staff Software Engineer

Kaseya is the leading provider of IT infrastructure and security management solutions for MSPs and internal IT teams. The Staff Backend Engineer (Golang) will drive architectural direction, lead complex cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and ensure scalable and resilient backup and cloud services systems.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a domain expert for backend systems within Datto Endpoint Backup and influence technical direction across product lines
• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of high-performance, secure, and fault-tolerant backend services
• Define and promote engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural frameworks
• Own mission-critical features and subsystems—from concept to production rollout—and ensure operational excellence
• Conduct deep design reviews, provide technical oversight, and guide teams through complex engineering challenges
• Partner closely with Product Management, SRE, Infrastructure, and other engineering teams to align on roadmaps, scope large initiatives, and balance business requirements with technical scalability
• Participate in long-term planning, capacity forecasting, and technical roadmap creation
• Mentor engineers across multiple teams through code reviews, design sessions, and technical coaching
• Raise the overall engineering bar through knowledge sharing, internal talks, and documentation
• Provide guidance in incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements

Requirements:

• 8+ years building large-scale backend systems; expertise in Golang
• Deep experience with gRPC, REST APIs, Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience working on and developing for Linux
• Expertise with PostgreSQL and Cassandra
• Strong architectural leadership with microservices and distributed systems
• Familiarity with QEMU/KVM, VMware ESX, Hyper-V
• Strong testing methodology knowledge
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• 8+ years of professional experience building large-scale backend systems, with extensive proficiency in Golang (or comparable languages with the ability to transition quickly)
• Deep expertise in designing, consuming, and evolving REST APIs and gRPC for high-throughput and distributed environments
• Strong experience building and operating containerized services using Docker and Kubernetes in production
• Demonstrated experience designing resilient systems using relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL and Cassandra
• Strong command of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and event-driven patterns
• Experience shaping technical strategy, influencing cross-team architecture, and making long-term design decisions
• Ability to evaluate trade-offs across scalability, cost, performance, and operational overhead
• Deep understanding of testing methodologies, including unit, integration, and load testing
• Experience building observable systems (logging, metrics, tracing)
• Comfort working across Windows and Linux environments
• Strong communication skills; able to articulate complex technical concepts to both engineers and stakeholders
• Proven ability to lead cross-team initiatives, set technical standards, and drive execution
• Skilled at decomposing ambiguous problems and defining clear, scalable solutions
• Adept at mentoring senior and mid-level engineers across multiple teams
• Advanced CI/CD pipeline development (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Experience building Windows services or working with NTFS internals
• Experience with ZFS
• Experience with object stores
• Experience developing for macOS