Senior Software Development Engineer(Tech Lead)

This role is for a Software Development Engineer(Tech Lead) within GoDaddy’s engineering organization, focused on building scalable, fault-tolerant systems that power critical customer and platform experiences at massive scale.

Our team works on highly impactful engineering initiatives, including greenfield projects and open-ended problem spaces where engineers are expected to bring structure, technical leadership, and strong execution. The systems we build serve millions of users and require high standards around reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

This is a role for engineers who thrive on solving hard technical problems, taking ownership from architecture through production, and influencing how teams design and build software. You will operate as a senior technical leader within the team—driving architectural decisions, mentoring engineers, and shaping engineering best practices across multiple applications and services.

The team strongly values innovation, continuous improvement, and practical adoption of emerging technologies, including AI-assisted development workflows and cloud-native engineering practices.

This is an opportunity to work on complex distributed systems, influence engineering direction, and help scale both technology and teams in a fast-moving, collaborative environment.

• Deliver high-quality production features and platform capabilities aligned with sprint commitments
• Design and build highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems using AWS cloud services
• Architect and develop greenfield initiatives from the ground up, including ambiguous and exploratory projects
• Debug and resolve complex production issues across multiple services and systems
• Evaluate modern technologies and cloud services to improve platform scalability, reliability, and efficiency

• Lead technical design discussions for complex cross-service architectures and platform capabilities
• Drive architectural decisions balancing scalability, reliability, operational simplicity, and long-term maintainability
• Build systems with strong observability practices including monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing
• Identify and mitigate technical risks early in the development lifecycle

• Serve as a trusted technical leader and subject matter expert for complex engineering challenges
• Lead agile development practices including sprint planning, retrospectives, code reviews, and collaborative design sessions
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on system design, code quality, and engineering best practices
• Foster a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and engineering excellence across the team

• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows across development, testing, and documentation processes
• Explore and implement AI/ML capabilities within engineering and product workflows
• Promote experimentation with modern technologies and emerging engineering practices

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production-grade systems
• Strong proficiency across modern backend technologies with expertise in GoLang, Python, or Node.js
• Hands-on AWS experience across services such as EKS, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, S3, SQS/SNS, RDS/Aurora, and IAM
• Strong experience designing and operating distributed, fault-tolerant, highly available systems
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL/Aurora and MongoDB including schema design, indexing, and query optimization
• Experience implementing observability and monitoring solutions using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML tooling or LLM-powered capabilities into production systems or engineering workflows
• Deep understanding of Agile/Scrum principles and experience driving engineering process improvements
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and evolving problem spaces
• Proven technical leadership experience driving projects end-to-end and mentoring engineers

• Frontend or full-stack experience with React
• Experience with performance and load testing tools such as k6, Locust, or JMeter
• Participation in technical communities through blogs, conference talks, or knowledge-sharing initiatives

• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to independently drive complex initiatives
• Excellent problem-solving and systems-thinking abilities
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Passion for engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and mentoring others