Overview
Remote
$60 - $70
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 24 Month(s)
Skills
Golang
Operating Systems
Open Source
Performance Tuning
Software Development
Job Details
Must-Have Experience:
5+ years in Golang library/tooling development (not general app development).
Strong open-source contributions and experience with build systems/infrastructure code.
Job Description:
- Repo Rangers is a new team with a dedicated mission of accelerating the pace of software development and strengthening security and compliance in Dropbox s rServer monorepo . The team will make foundational investments in libraries, packages, and tools for two largest languages at Dropbox (viz. Py and Go). They will help develop deep expertise, bring cutting edge tools, establish best practices, and provide hands on guidance and support to platform and product teams across the company.
- Go lang specialist contractor Job description and responsibilities The contractor will be responsible for helping advance the Go ecosystem in Dropbox s rServer monorepo. They will drive a broad variety of projects such as periodically upgrading rServer to latest Go SDK/runtime, building tooling for integrating and updating third party Go lang libraries into rServrer, upgrading foundational first party and third party Go lang libraries, enhancing tooling for debugging and IDE integration, supporting linters and static analysis tools. integrating Go lang tooling with dependency management software, improving documentation and best practices to support Go developer journey, and adoption state of art profiling and performance optimization techniques.
- The contractor will collaborate closely with full time employees in Repo Rangers, Build Toolchains, and other infrastructure and platform teams. They will be responsible for providing business hours support for all things Go lang.
Job Requirements
- This role requires an expert software programmer with 8+ years of industry experience and proficiency in Go lang. The ideal candidate would additionally have experience with building large scale software using Bazel, experience writing and patching library code, and experience in C/C++. Experience with profiling and performance optimization and operating systems internals is a strong plus.
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