Senior Backend Developer | Go | Brno

Protecting one billion people from cyber threats If you find this proposition more exciting than scary come on board and grow with us.

Whalebone is a global company working on user-centric cybersecurity products for telcos ISPs enterprises public institutions and governments that provide millions of everyday internet users unyielding protection from malware phishing schemes ransomware and other malicious digital attacks without the need for them to download anything. Whalebone is headquartered in Brno Czech Republic.

At this point Whalebone has 400 customers in telecommunications and corporate sectors (A1 O2 Telefonica Tele2 Panasonic Bauhaus and many others) around the globe. With over 160 team members of multiple nationalities Whalebone ranked 22nd in Deloittes list of fastest-growing companies in Central Europe.

We create cybersecurity products that people can actually use. We protect them against viruses and fraud on the network so that the users do not have to handle anything.
Thanks to this approach we already protect tens of millions of people worldwide. Become a significant part of an important and ambitious project as a Backend Developer with Go.

Apply now and help us protect the online world around us!

What will you do

• Working on new features of our microservices BE portfolio
• Creating/extending microservices communicating with each other using APIs (REST gRPC) and using modern technologies for data storage (Elasticsearch Clickhouse) messaging (Kafka NATS) running in cloud environment (K8s Docker)
• Creating small pieces to build a complex environment but keeping things simple

Our Tech Stack

• We leverage microservices heavily from day one of Whalebone there is no legacy system. We containerize everything and orchestrate it through Kubernetes.
• We avoid cloud vendor lock-in and minimize the usage of any cloud provider-specific services. Our backend can be moved to any managed Kubernetes provider instantly.
• Backend is mostly based on Golang PHP and Java microservices.
• The frontend teams main choice is
• Threat Intelligence with their data analysis and machine learning use cases mainly rely on Python.
• And our modules in the DNS resolver itself as it is a high-performance component are written in pure C.
• For various use cases of data analysis we rely mainly on Elasticsearch and Clickhouse for stream processing Logstash and Kafka and to understand that everything is working fine we observe Grafana dashboards providing us insight into the Prometheus stored metrics.

  
  

Requirements

• Were looking for experienced backend developers who are comfortable working with modern backend technologies and open to learning Go as part of their journey with us.
• Experience with microservice design and communication
• Spoken English
  
  

Why would you like to work with us

• Meaningful job helping the company scale and shape a brand-new role
• 205 vacation days a rewarding financial package performance bonuses and the option to choose ESOP as a benefit
• Office-based company culture with home office options up to 4 sick days annually based on your selected working setup and up to two weeks of Work From Anywhere each year
• You will be supported to learn grow and gain new experiences with us
• Regular events & teambuildings grill enjoy pub quizzes or have breakfast with us
• Your opinion will matter to us discuss your ideas and feedback directly with the CEO or CTO if you feel they should hear them
• Mobile phone tariff available for friends and family members
• Access to the ALZA special benefits program
• Multisport Card available through the company program
• 15% discount on all coffee products on the Coffeespot e-shop
• Access to wellbeing support through Hedepy
  

Position details

• Team: Engineering
• Work setup: On-site Hybrid
• Location: Jezuitská 14/13 Brno Czech Republic
• Job type: Full-time