Lead Golang Developer - 3 days/Week onsite in Seattle, WA -- only W2

Overview

On Site
Contract - W2
Contract - 12

Skills

AWS
GoLang

Job Details

Only W2

Title: Lead Golang Developer

Duration: 12+ Months contract on W2

3 Days/Week onsite in Seattle, WA

LEAD ROLE:

Expert level proficiency in Golang for backend and infrastructure tooling

Deep experience with AWS services - EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, RDS, CloudFormation/Terraform, Secrets Manager, and Security Hub.

Strong hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, including cluster lifecycle, deployments, and service management.

Proficient with logging, metrics, and tracing using Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Understanding of VPC design, load balancing, DNS, API gateways, and service meshes (e.g., Istio or Linkerd).

Working knowledge of IAM, encryption, secure API design, vulnerability scanning, and compliance frameworks.

Experience with GitOps pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automated build/deploy workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).

Leadership & Collaboration: 7 10 years of professional software development and infrastructure experience, with 2 3 years in technical leadership or lead engineer capacity.

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