Senior Software Engineer - Backend

GoDaddy empowers entrepreneurs around the world by providing tools and support to help them succeed online. The Senior Software Engineer - Backend will build and operate services for GoDaddy’s Internal Developer Platform, including high-scale APIs, infrastructure orchestration, metadata systems, and AI-powered developer tooling. The role also involves partnering with infrastructure, security, and platform teams while contributing to code reviews, testing, production reliability, and team mentorship.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and ship platform services and features used by 1,000+ engineers
• Contribute to the design of high-scale APIs, infrastructure orchestration, and metadata systems
• Build AI-powered developer tooling, including chat-based and agentic workflows
• Partner with infrastructure, security, and platform teams to integrate core capabilities
• Own the components you build in production — performance, reliability, debugging complex production issues, and on-call rotation
• Independently spot problem areas in your area of responsibility and proactively fix them
• Champion testing practices and raise the quality bar with your teammates

Requirements:

• • Backend engineering with Node.js / TypeScript and experience designing APIs (REST, versioning, contracts)
• • Experience building on AWS (ECS/Fargate, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, IAM)
• • Full-stack development using React / Next.js
• • Solid distributed systems fundamentals (data modeling, caching, consistency, system design)
• • CI/CD and testing best practices (GitHub Actions, unit/integration testing)
• • Comfort working in Scrum, with a genuine interest in improving both the product and the process
• • Curiosity about AI tooling and a habit of integrating it into your daily workflow
• • Experience with an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) or developer tooling ecosystem
• • Familiarity with LLM/AI integrations, agentic workflows, or prompt engineering
• • Exposure to ServiceNow / CMDB or enterprise metadata systems
• • Infrastructure-as-code experience (CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation)
• • Knowledge of security and secrets management (Vault, IAM, compliance practices)
• • Contributions to internal open source or technology working groups