Senior Go Developer

Accountabilities

• Design and implement high-performance backend services and APIs using Go, with a focus on concurrency, scalability, error handling, and resource efficiency.
• Develop cloud-native applications, Kubernetes-based tooling, CLI utilities, controllers, and custom operators using modern Go practices.
• Create and maintain gRPC and REST APIs with strong observability, security, and operational reliability.
• Analyze and optimize application performance through profiling, benchmarking, and data-driven improvements related to memory usage, garbage collection, latency, and throughput.
• Integrate services with messaging platforms and data stores, including technologies such as Kafka, NATS, PostgreSQL, Redis, and etcd.
• Create comprehensive automated testing strategies, including unit, integration, and performance testing.
• Implement monitoring capabilities through structured logging, metrics, and distributed tracing to support production reliability.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and design reviews while maintaining high engineering standards.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through technical guidance, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to shared libraries, internal tooling, reusable engineering patterns, and technical documentation.
• Stay current with developments in the Go ecosystem and identify opportunities to improve development practices and platform capabilities.

Requirements

• The ideal candidate is a highly experienced software engineer with deep expertise in Go development, distributed systems, and cloud-native technologies.
• They should be comfortable working independently, solving complex technical problems, and collaborating within a fast-moving engineering environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant hands-on experience with Go.
• Strong understanding of Go concurrency concepts, including goroutines, channels, and context management.
• Proven experience building production-grade gRPC and/or REST APIs in Go.
• Experience developing Kubernetes-native applications using tools such as client-go or controller-runtime.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, networking fundamentals, and backend architecture.
• Experience working with relational and key-value databases.
• Familiarity with containerized environments and CI/CD deployment workflows.
• Excellent debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization skills.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and technical documentation abilities.
• Experience contributing to open-source Go projects, Kubernetes operators, eBPF, service mesh technologies, security-focused systems, WASM, TinyGo, or embedded systems is a plus.

Benefits

• Competitive annual salary range of $175,000-$200,000.
• Full-time direct employment opportunity.
• Opportunity to work on challenging cloud-native systems and large-scale engineering projects.
• Career growth potential within an established technology environment.
• Ability to influence architecture, engineering practices, and technical standards.
• Collaborative culture with opportunities for mentorship and knowledge sharing.
• Opportunity to work with modern technologies across Go, Kubernetes, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.