Senior Go Engineer
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain Go-based backend services, including APIs and internal processing components
- Build and extend APIs supporting scientific and computational workflows
- Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot services in Kubernetes (EKS) environments
- Implement and maintain observability systems (logging, monitoring, alerting) to ensure system reliability and performance
- Define key system metrics, build dashboards, and set up proactive alerting mechanisms
- Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure smooth integration with cloud-native systems
- Participate in system design discussions with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and observability
- Monitor production systems and proactively resolve incidents and performance issues
- Contribute to and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code following engineering best practices
- Support and mentor junior engineers when needed
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience building production-grade backend systems in Go
- Proven experience with Kubernetes (preferably AWS EKS) in production environments
- Solid background in designing and implementing RESTful APIs or similar service interfaces
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture principles
- Experience working with production observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
- Working knowledge of AWS services (EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, etc.)
- Strong Linux fundamentals and ability to troubleshoot system-level issues
- Proficiency with Git and modern development workflows
- Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills across application and infrastructure layers
- Working hours must overlap with US Pacific Time (12:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST)
We offer
- Competitive compensation
- Remote work
- Flexible working hours
- A team with excellent tech expertise
