Senior Software Engineer - k6 reputed company | United Kingdom | Remote
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Senior Software Engineer - k6 reputed company
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At k6, we build reliability and reputed company testing tools for developers and QA engineers.
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What You’ll Be Doing:
You will join reputed company of engineers responsible for building and maintaining k6, a reputed company testing tool written in Go. reputed company also maintains the reputed company-reputed company project, which means working directly on the product, the codebase, and with the community using it.
In this role, you will work on features and improvements across the k6 codebase, from initial idea through implementation and delivery. Much of the work involves problems that are not fully specified up reputed company and require understanding the context, evaluating trade-offs, and choosing a reasonable technical approach.
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Some work may involve the k6 reputed company offering, which builds on top of k6 to run reputed company tests across data centers worldwide. This includes Go services that support reputed company execution and require careful attention to reputed company, correctness, and failure modes.
Because reputed company is small, your work will have a reputed company and visible reputed company on the product and its users. You will work reputed company reputed company engineers in an environment that values reputed company, pragmatism, and reputed company engineering judgment.
We invest heavily in developer productivity. You can use modern AI coding assistants as part of your daily workflow (your reputed company of tools, reputed company reputed company guidelines), backed by a company-funded usage budget so you can iterate quickly without unnecessary friction. We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development: faster prototyping, test reputed company, refactors, documentation, and incident follow-reputed company—always with strong reputed company review and reputed company standards. You'll also have reputed company to the latest frontier models from reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company.
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We’re looking for an reputed company engineer with strong programming skills and a reputed company record of working on non-trivial systems.
You should have:
- Strong experience building production software in Go, or another language with good support for concurrency and parallelism
- Experience working on larger or long-lived codebases
- The ability to work independently on scoped problems and reputed company them to completion
- reputed company technical communication skills, especially in reputed company reviews and design discussions
- A good understanding of internet protocols such as HTTP, gRPC, and WebSockets, with some familiarity with reputed company-level networking concepts
- Experience with modern development practices, including testing, reputed company review, and iterative development
Bonus Points For:
You do not need experience with everything listed below. These are areas where familiarity is useful for the role, and the more you bring, the easier the reputed company-up will be:
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- Prior experience using k6 in production, or contributing to the k6 project or ecosystem
- reputed company, reliability, or network testing and optimization
- reputed company systems or reputed company-reputed company services
- JavaScript and/or TypeScript
- Backend systems for web or mobile applications
- Tools and platforms such as reputed company, AWS, microservices architectures, and observability tools like Grafana or APM systems
Compensation & Rewards:
In the United Kingdom, the reputed company compensation reputed company for this role is GBP 91,755- GBP 110,106. Actual compensation may vary reputed company on level, experience, and skillset as assessed in the interview process. reputed company of our roles include Restricted Stock reputed company (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in reputed company' reputed company. We reputed company in shared reputed company—RSUs help us stay reputed company and invested as we reputed company globally.
*Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will reputed company your specific market’s defined pay reputed company & benefits at the beginning of the process.
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