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Go Engineer - k6 open-source developer
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k6.io | Go Engineer - k6 open-source developer | REMOTE in Europe
Apply at: https://loadimpacte4.applytojob.com/apply/utlvKOlILJ/Go-Engi... or via email pawel@k6.io
You will be one of four developers and maintainers of k6[0], a modern open-source tool for performance testing, written in Go. k6 was released publicly in early 2017 and has already received over 11,000 stars on GitHub. We have a quickly growing community of users and contributors.
Your responsibilities will be to build new features, maintain the code base and interface with the user community (i.e. review patches :) and potentially evangelize the tool.
Skills required:
We are looking for a person combining strong programming skills with experience in contributing to open-source projects.
Applicants must:
- Have a strong programming background and experience developing applications in Go
- Good technical communication skills
- Understand internet protocols well, primarily IP, TCP, HTTP but also preferably HTTP/2, WebSockets, QUIC, gRPC
- Be familiar with modern development processes and practices. Preferably having recent experience developing large scale applications
k6 is a remote-first company. We accept remote applicants in European time zones.
[0] https://k6.io/
[1] https://github.com/loadimpact/k6