k6.io | Go Engineer - k6 open-source developer | REMOTE in EU time-zone (CET +/- 3h)
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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 (CET +/- 3h).
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