Senior Golang Developer

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Golang Developer to design, build, and release APIs supporting a containers capacity platform automation. This role focuses on implementing and adopting container technologies and best practices for automation, deployment, and configuration.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and release APIs for platform automation.
• Perform code reviews and execute DevOps functions.
• Develop controllers and tools for integrating shared services into the Kubernetes ecosystem.
• Implement best practices for container technology automation, deployment, configuration, and monitoring.
• Work with project teams to ensure proper design for high availability and failover.
• Develop and build automation tools and processes for development and production environments.
• Collaborate with a geographically dispersed team to ensure platform reliability.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of experience as a software engineer building distributed enterprise platforms.
• Hands-on experience developing and delivering scalable APIs and backend services in a production environment.
• Proven experience with container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices, including code reviews and automated testing.
• Experience implementing high availability, failover, and resiliency patterns.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Go, with additional experience in Java or Python considered.
• API development experience using Go.
• Kubernetes development experience, including building or working with controllers, operators, or platform integrations.
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Understanding of microservices architecture and RESTful API design.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with automation tools and infrastructure-as-code like Terraform, Ansible, or Helm.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack.

Preferred Qualifications

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree.
• Experience with Kubernetes platforms, operators, and controllers.
• Familiarity with cloud-managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE).
• Knowledge of GitOps, CI/CD, and deployment tools such as Helm or ArgoCD.
• Experience with service mesh and observability tools.
• Background in enterprise integrations including IAM, secrets, and networking.
• Exposure to SRE practices like resiliency, SLOs, and monitoring.
• Experience with event-driven systems, for example, Kafka.

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans, an ESPP (employee stock purchase program), a 401K program, a Health Savings Account (HSA) on the HDHP plan, a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program, and other discounts. Professional development includes an on-demand training program, access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars, certification discounts, and perks to associations like CompTIA and IIBA. For questions about benefits, you can contact our Benefits Department at [email protected] or 804-523-8228.