Senior Golang Engineer
Location: Chicago
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Employment Type: Contract
Overview
We are seeking a highly specialized Senior Golang Engineer to join a cutting-edge platform engineering team building scalable, cloud-native distributed systems. This role requires deep expertise in Golang development, Kubernetes orchestration, and high-throughput backend architectures operating within enterprise-scale environments.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience developing microservices, optimizing concurrency-heavy applications, and working across modern infrastructure and observability ecosystems.
Core Responsibilities
- Architect and develop high-performance backend services using Golang
- Design scalable microservices and event-driven systems
- Build and maintain gRPC and RESTful APIs
- Develop applications optimized for concurrency, resiliency, and low latency
- Work closely with SRE and platform teams to improve reliability and scalability
- Implement observability, tracing, and monitoring across distributed systems
- Contribute to CI/CD automation and infrastructure improvements
- Participate in technical design sessions and architectural reviews
- Troubleshoot complex production and performance issues
Required Technical Skills
- 7+ years of backend software engineering experience
- 4+ years of hands-on Golang development in production environments
- Strong expertise in:
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- gRPC
- Distributed systems architecture
- Multithreading and concurrency patterns in Go
- Deep understanding of:
- Service discovery
- API gateways
- Load balancing
- Messaging/event streaming architectures
- Experience with Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ
- Strong experience with cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Experienceimplementingobservability tooling:
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry
- Splunk or ELK
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code:
- Terraform
- Helm
- Ansible
- Strong Linux systems knowledge
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building edge computing or streaming platforms
- Exposure to service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd
- Experience supporting highly available systems at scale
- Background in telecom, media, or enterprise platform engineering
- Familiarity with security best practices in cloud-native environments
GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Senior Golang Engineer
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