🌎Akvelon is an American company with offices in Seattle, Mexico, Ukraine, Poland, and Serbia. Our company is an official vendor of Microsoft and Google. Our clients also include Amazon, Evernote, Intel, HP, Reddit, Pinterest, AT&T, T-Mobile, Starbucks, and LinkedIn. To work with Akvelon means to be connected with the best and brightest engineering teams from around the globe and working with an actual technology stack building Enterprise, CRM, LOB, Cloud, AI and Machine Learning, Cross-Platform, Mobile, and other types of applications customized to client’s needs and processes.
Akvelon is looking for an experienced Go / Cloud Software Engineer to join a long-term project for a global technology leader.
You will work on a Blade Compute Provisioning stream focused on cloud-native compute infrastructure and provisioning. The role combines software development in Go with hands-on work across Azure, Kubernetes/AKS, Linux, containers, and production infrastructure.
This is a good fit for an engineer who enjoys working beyond application code and is comfortable troubleshooting systems across both software and infrastructure layers.
The role also includes some DevOps responsibilities, so it’s important to be comfortable working with cloud infrastructure and CI/CD.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Go
- Work with cloud-native infrastructure running on Microsoft Azure
- Build and support solutions using Kubernetes / AKS, Docker/containers, and Helm
- Work with Azure services such as Service Bus and Key Vault
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues across application and infrastructure layers
- Work with Linux/Unix-based environments and compute infrastructure
- Participate in infrastructure automation and CI/CD processes
- Collaborate with engineering teams on reliability, security, scalability, and production readiness
- Contribute to secure engineering practices for infrastructure and cloud services
Requirements
- Strong commercial experience with Go
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
- Practical experience with Kubernetes / AKS
- Experience with Docker/containers and Helm
- Experience with cloud-native and distributed systems
- Good knowledge of Linux/Unix
- Understanding of computer architecture and infrastructure concepts
- Strong production troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Understanding of secure coding and application security principles
- Good English communication skills
Nice to have
- Experience with Azure Service Bus and Key Vault
- Infrastructure as Code experience with ARM templates or Bicep
- Scripting and infrastructure automation experience
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge of enterprise compute hardware or edge servers
- Experience with host attestation, firewall management, or platform security
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, anomaly detection, or automated incident triage
- Knowledge of Azure security, identity, and compliance
- Experience applying AI/ML to monitoring, diagnostics, or threat detection
DRI / On-call rotation
This stream includes a DRI rotation, planned to start in mid-January 2027.
The rotation is expected to take place one week every four weeks. During a DRI week, engineers provide coverage within a 12-hour window: 8 hours are regular working hours, while the remaining 4 hours are on-call.
On-call time and active incident resolution outside regular working hours are compensated separately.
Working Conditions
Location: Portugal, Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, or Poland
Contract: Full-time, 40 hours per week
Duration: 6 months
Start date: September 17
Working hours: Flexible, with availability required until 7:00 PM CET
Benefits
- Paid vacation, sick leave (without a sickness list)
- Official state holidays – 11 days considered public holidays
- Professional growth while attending challenging projects and the possibility to switch your role, master new technologies and skills with company support
- Personal Career Development Plan (CDP)
- Employee support program (Discount, Care, Health, Legal compensation)
- Paid external training, conferences, and professional certification that meet the company’s business goals
- Internal workshops & seminars
- Corporate library and internal English classes
This position is not open to U.S.-based applicants.
Interested in joining us? Send us your CV — we’d be happy to hear from you!