Unikraft is Hiring a Tooling Engineer in Go

May 12, 2026 — RemoteOK 24-hour window: May 11–12, 2026

One new fully-remote Go role landed on RemoteOK in the past 24 hours. Here's the breakdown.

The role

Unikraft — a startup building a next-generation cloud platform on open-source unikernel technology — posted a 1 on May 11, 2026. The position sits within the Tooling Team, reporting to Head of Tooling Justin Chadwell and Chief of Staff Jérôme.

The title has no explicit seniority prefix — not "Senior," not "Junior" — which puts it in an unusual spot that the company's own job description clarifies as requiring solid, cross-cutting engineering fundamentals rather than a specific level of years.

What you'd build

Go is the core language. The 2 outlines work across:

CLIs and TUIs — the primary interface through which developers will interact with the Unikraft platform
SDKs — wrapping platform capabilities for Go-native consumption
Integrations — Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and GitHub Actions
Dashboard work — spanning both frontend and backend surface areas
Low-level platform components — occasional deep systems work where Go meets the underlying unikernel infrastructure

The company describes the role as building "the DX for the cloud rebuilt from scratch — CLIs, SDKs, and integrations that make millions-of-users-on-a-few-servers feel effortless." Bonus points on the JD go to C/systems programming experience, open-source contributions, and prior cloud-native tooling work.

Remote policy and experience level

The role is fully remote, but geography matters: candidates must operate within Europe, CET ±2 hours. That window covers Western Europe through Eastern Europe, and includes parts of the Middle East and Africa that fall within UTC+1 to UTC+3.

On seniority: DailyRemote's listing cites a 2–5 year experience range. The official JD asks for "solid engineering fundamentals and the ability to contribute across backend and tooling, specifically in Go" — which lands this squarely at mid-to-senior level without carrying a formal senior title.

Compensation

This is where the listing runs into a wall. RemoteOK hides the salary behind its Premium paywall — the listing shows "Upgrade to Premium to see salary" rather than a number. Unikraft's own 2 lists compensation as "Competitive salary, 6 weeks of vacation, development opportunities" with no figure attached.

The only data point available comes from historical context: Unikraft's previous Golang Engineer role (posted June 2025) was estimated at $55,000–$100,000/year by RemoteOK's salary algorithm, and listed at €78,000–€108,000/year on Golangprojects.com. That range straddles the $100K USD threshold in both directions — the lower end falls short, the upper end clears it, depending on the EUR/USD rate and the actual offer.

The current Tooling Engineer role may fall in a similar band, but no confirmed figure is available. Readers who need to verify compensation before applying should use the official application page, which uses Teamtailor's system and allows for direct contact with the hiring team.

About Unikraft

Unikraft (unikraft.cloud) builds its platform on the premise that modern cloud workloads are running on decades-old OS abstractions that carry enormous overhead. The company's stated thesis, from the job description: "The cloud is broken: it's wasteful, slow, awfully expensive, and burdened with legacy tech that wasn't built for today's workloads."

The team is technically deep. Leadership includes Felipe Huici (CEO), Simon Kuenzer (CTO), Alexander Jung (CPO), Marc Rittinghaus (Head of Engineering), and Justin Chadwell (Head of Tooling, who this role reports to). A January 2025 Go Forum hiring post described Unikraft as 3, and the company currently has five open roles — all remote within Europe CET ±2hrs.

How to apply

Two paths to the same application:

RemoteOK redirect: remoteok.com/l/1131540
Official ATS (Teamtailor): careers.unikraft.com/jobs/7614451-tooling-engineer

The official ATS page is the better option — it's the primary listing and shows the full job description without a paywall.

One new Go listing in the past 24 hours. Coverage window: May 11–12, 2026 (RemoteOK, fully remote, Go/Golang primary requirement, $100k+ USD filter applied). Salary for this listing could not be independently confirmed — see compensation section for details.