Golang Engineer

Strong Go (Golang) production experience - 3+ years; idiomatic Go, concurrency patterns, context management.

API design experience: gRPC and/or REST; protobufs a plus.

Experience designing and operating event-driven systems (pub/sub, message queues) and streaming processing.

Familiarity with policy engines (OPA/rego) or ability to encode validation rules.

Experience with CI/CD integrations (webhooks, pipeline triggers), authentication (OAuth, mTLS), secrets management.

Observability: exposing Prometheus metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing.

Solid testing and quality practices (go test, integration testing, fuzzing where appropriate).

Familiar with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and deployment pipelines.

Experience with OPA (Open Policy Agent) and writing Rego policies for gating decisions.

Knowledge of NFR categories (latency, throughput, resiliency, security posture) and how to translate them into testable checks.

Experience with immutable audit stores (append-only logs, event sourcing).

Experience in high-throughput validation systems or policy engines.

Prior work on developer tooling, platform automation, or developer experience