Description Position Overview
We are seeking a Golang Developer IV to lead technical initiatives, deliver high-impact results, and contribute to architectural and platform-level decisions. This senior-level role requires deep expertise in Golang, distributed systems, security, Linux internals, and modern cloud-native development. The ideal candidate is a self-driven leader, capable of mentoring others, influencing design direction, and developing complex services within large-scale distributed environments.
This role requires hands-on coding, debugging, modernization, and proactive ownership of platform components. Experience with infrastructure tooling, security frameworks, and multi-cloud environments is essential.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Engineering
- Lead engineering initiatives from concept to delivery
- Drive technical decision-making and mentor junior developers
- Own end-to-end development of Golang-based services and system components
- Break down business requirements into small, actionable technical tasks
- Set coding best practices, code-review standards, and quality guidelines
Core Development Responsibilities
- Develop new features and backend services in Golang
- Debug, diagnose, and resolve complex software defects
- Reverse-engineer legacy codebases to evaluate and refactor functionality
- Participate in design sessions, analyzing architectural tradeoffs and solution options
- Maintain strong documentation across solutions, APIs, and workflows
- Build high-performance components for large-scale distributed systems
Requirements Must have at least 6 Years' experience in Golang
Previous experience working with Terraform and Kubernetes
Comfortable working with Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure
Experience working with distributed systems
Experience working with messaging systems like NATS, Kinesis, Kafka
Experience with databases (SQL, NoSQL)
Preferred Experience
Prior experience working with AI / Video
Experience building MCP servers
Previous front end working experience (React framework)
2 years programming experience with Python
Experience working with Private cloud
Certifications in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform
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