Senior Golang Engineer

Reference: GD_1778621498

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.

$50.00 - $80.00
Per hour
USD50 - USD80 per hour

Chicago

Contract

Added 12/05/2026
Reference: GD_1778621498

Senior Golang Engineer

Chicago
Contract

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