Senior Software Engineer, Golang (Open to Remote!) at Tinder | Powderkeg

Location: Los Angeles, California

Employment Type: Regular

Team: Engineering

Tinder brings people together. With tens of millions of users, hundreds of millions of downloads, 2 billion swipes per day, hundreds of thousands of requests per second, 20 million matches per day and a presence in every country on earth, our reach is expansive—and rapidly growing.

Tinder is looking for an experienced Senior Engineer to work on System Reliability projects. Our goal is to build confidence and resilience in our systems through experimentation. We ensure that resiliency measures are working as expected and collaborate with service teams to remediate findings. We set the resiliency standards by which the entire engineering organization adheres to.

As a Senior Engineer in Cloud Infrastructure at Tinder, you will have an outsized impact and ownership of the most visible aspects of the Tinder.com progressive projects across the company. We are a small but growing team using modern technologies to build high quality, performant, and accessible products for our members.

What You'll Do:

  • Evaluate and implement standard methodologies for System Reliability throughout Tinder's Engineering organization.
  • Partner with other teams to ensure their services meet resiliency standards.
  • Work with a collaborative team on building the platform that powers our experiments.
  • Gain large scale production-level experience in the following technologies: Linux, Kubernetes, Envoy, and more.
  • Build large-scale systems from the ground up that drive high value for the company.
  • Tackle fun and sophisticated problems around microservice architectures and cloud infrastructure.

What We're Looking For:

  • 5+ years of demonstrated ability in software development
  • Experience with writing Golang for use in a production environment
  • Experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience with infrastructure and systems engineering
  • Experience with developing internal tools
  • Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Bonus Points If You Have:

  • Experience architecting, building, and operating distributed high scale systems
  • Experience with application profiling or load testing
  • Experience with Envoy
  • Experience with cross-team, multi-functional projects

At Tinder, we don’t just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our product, and our community. We strive to make our workplace an inclusive and diverse environment, giving people from all walks of life the opportunity to have a voice. We champion and encourage those who bring different perspectives, ideas, and creativity to join our team dedicated to bringing people together across the globe. Tinder is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace where we welcome all people regardless of sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, or other lived experience.

As part of our team, you’ll enjoy:

• Working on a product that has an immediate impact on people’s lives all around the world

• Collaborating with a team of creative, fun and driven colleagues

• Comprehensive health coverage, competitive salary, 401(k) employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

• Other perks and wellness benefits like a fitness membership subsidy, paid concierge medical membership, pet insurance offerings, and a commuter subsidy

• A robust Learning + Development offering including our MentorMatch program, access to a library of 6,000+ online learning courses through Udemy, and an annual L+D stipend

• Access to mental health resources

• Fertility preservation benefits

• No Meeting Wednesdays and access to a wide range of product and service discounts through Perkspot

• Charitable donations match up to $15,000 annually

• Monthly and weekly interactive virtual events including Book Club, trivia with prizes and yoga workouts

• The opportunity to join six active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

At Tinder, we don’t just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our product, and our community. We strive to make our workplace an inclusive and diverse environment, giving people from all walks of life the opportunity to have a voice. We champion and encourage those who bring different perspectives, ideas, and creativity to join our team dedicated to bringing people together across the globe. Tinder is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace where we welcome all people regardless of sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, or other lived experience.

Job Summary
  • Job Title
    Senior Software Engineer, Golang (Open to Remote!)
  • Company
    Tinder
  • Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • Employment Type
    Full time
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