Role : Principal Golang Architect
Location : Menlo Park CA (Remote)
Role Type : Contract
Job Description
Position Overview: We are looking for a highly specialized Principal Cloud-Native Architect with strong hands-on expertise in Golang, Kubernetes, AWS, EKS(Elastic Kubernetes Service), and distributed systems. Please submit candidates who have built and architected enterprise-scale cloud-native platforms—not candidates with only application deployment or basic Kubernetes administration experience.
Must-Have Skills:
‣ 12+ years overall software/IT experience.
‣ Strong hands-on Golang/Go development and Architecture.
‣ Strong experience with Docker, Helm, CI/CD, GitOps and infrastructure automation.
‣ Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or enterprise observability.
‣ Agentic AI, RAG, MCP/LLM integration with cloud-native platforms is Required.
‣ Expert-level Kubernetes engineering.
‣ Hands-on Kubernetes Operators, Controllers, CRDs, Kubebuilder, Controller-Runtime/Operator SDK.
‣ Strong AWS / EKS architecture experience.
‣ Enterprise distributed systems and microservices architecture.
‣ Experience with Kubernetes multi-cluster / federation is highly preferred.
‣ Strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, high availability and production troubleshooting.
‣ Istio/Envoy, Kafka, Terraform, ArgoCD are strongly preferred.