Go Systems Engineer

Overview

On Site
Contract - W2

Skills

Kubernetes
kernel
networking
Systems Engineer
operations
REAL-TIME
VMS
Systems Programming
RPC

Job Details

Cerebra Consulting Inc is a System Integrator and IT Services Solution provider with a focus on Big Data, Business Analytics, Cloud Solutions, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, Oracle EBS, Peoplesoft, Hyperion, Oracle Configurator, Oracle CPQ, Oracle PLM and Custom Application Development. Utilizing solid business experience, industry-specific expertise, and proven methodologies, we consistently deliver measurable results for our customers. Cerebra has partnered with leading enterprise software companies and cloud providers such as Oracle, Salesforce, Amazon and able to leverage these partner relationships to deliver high-quality, end-to-end customer solutions that are targeted to the needs of each customer.

Job Title: Go Systems Engineer

Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Onsite)

Employment Type: Full-time

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and optimize low-level systems in Go, focusing on performance, concurrency, and safety.
  • Author or contribute to compiler, runtime modules, or garbage collector in Go.
  • Build and maintain production-grade Raft or Paxos implementations.
  • Develop lock-free and wait-free algorithms for high-throughput systems.
  • Engineer custom RPC protocols or messaging buses beyond standard frameworks.
  • Deliver code that runs without OS dependencies, libc, or dynamic memory allocation.
  • Design and implement bytecode VMs, memory-safe networking stacks, or kernel modules using Go and cgo.
  • Work in sandboxed, air-gapped, and no-stdlib environments.
  • Trace syscalls from Go code through hardware interrupts to ensure deterministic behavior.

Required Qualifications

  • 8 10 years of experience in low-level systems programming.
  • 6 8 years of production experience with Go as the primary language.
  • Demonstrated experience with consensus protocols (Raft, Paxos).
  • Strong expertise in concurrency, memory models, and system safety guarantees.
  • Proven ability to work in constrained environments (no OS/no dynamic allocation).
  • Experience with syscalls, atomic operations, and advanced synchronization mechanisms.
  • Hands-on experience implementing a custom Go scheduler.
  • Expertise in memory-mapped IO, real-time kernel patches, and hardware-level profiling tools (perf, BPF, VTune).
  • Maintainer or contributor to high-impact open-source projects (Kubernetes, Etcd, container runtimes).
  • Deep familiarity with Go compiler internals (escape analysis, memory allocation behavior).

Syed Waseem

Technical Recruiter

Cerebra Consulting Inc, 270 lancaster Ave, Suite-D2, Malvern, PA 19355

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