Bluesky’s mission is to transition the social web from platforms to protocols. We’re building a federated social network where users have more power. Our team has decades of combined experience building distributed applications. Join us in building new forms of user-controlled social media.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend infrastructure
Ship new features and enhancements
Optimize existing systems for scalability, reliability, and performance

You might be a good fit if you have:

4+ years of experience with Go and backend systems
Strong knowledge of data structures and software design principles
Proven experience in building scalable and high-performance indexing systems, preferably for social media platforms or similar large-scale applications
Familiarity with distributed systems, message queues, and microservice architectures
Experience with networking, filesystems, and databases
Experience working on large-scale systems
Understanding of indexing and querying techniques
Can work well independently, as well as on a team
Like working on small, fast-moving teams
Like learning and building new things

We’re especially excited if you have:

Experience working on social media platforms or similar high-traffic applications
Have a copy of "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" and want to chat with the author

We’re a fully remote team, though an overlap of working hours with USA Pacific Time (PST) is required. For full-time roles we offer health, dental, and vision insurance.

To apply, email hello@blueskyweb.xyz with:

A resume or CV (link or PDF)
A cover letter that tells us why you care about this problem and how your skills equip you to work on it (link or PDF)
A link to your GitHub, GitLab, or a portfolio of past work