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Job Details
Job Title : Go Systems Engineer
Location: Mountain View, California
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Must Have Requirements:
Experience: 8-10 years in low-level systems, 6-8 years in Go
7+ years production experience with Go, where Go is your primary language.
Must have authored or contributed to a Go compiler, runtime module, or garbage collector (proof required).
Have written your own RPC protocol or messaging bus gRPC is not acceptable.
Demonstrated ability to write lock-free, wait-free algorithms in production use.
Must have developed and maintained a production-grade Raft or Paxos implementation, not just used one.
Proven experience writing and shipping code that runs with No OS, No libc and No dynamic memory allocation
Designed or implemented your own Bytecode VM, Memory-safe networking stack, Custom kernel module in Go or via cgo
Comfort operating in air-gapped, sandboxed, or no-stdlib environments.
Can trace a syscall from Go code to the actual hardware interrupt.
Familiarity with atomic memory models, ABA problems, and formal memory safety guarantees in weak memory environments. Preferred But Not Must Have:
Implemented a custom Go scheduler (not tuned written).
Deep familiarity withMemory-mapped IO, Real-time kernel patches and Instruction-level profiling (e.g. perf, BPF, VTune)
Maintainer status in major projects like Kubernetes, Etcd, or container runtimes.
Can quote Go's escape analysis behavior line-for-line from its compiler source.
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