Job Description
Job DescriptionRole: Senior GoLang Engineer
Location: Washington, DC
Rate: $85/hour
Schedule: Hybrid (Onsite 4 days per week)
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Golang Engineer to lead technical initiatives, drive development efforts, and deliver high-quality solutions across distributed systems and cloud environments. This role requires strong hands-on Golang expertise, experience with modern infrastructure tooling, and the ability to design, develop, and optimize backend services in a large-scale environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead development initiatives and deliver high-impact solutions for backend and distributed systems.
- Design, build, and optimize services using Golang.
- Develop new functional features and enhance existing services.
- Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex software defects.
- Maintain high standards of code quality with a strong focus on refactoring and optimized solutions.
- Participate in architecture and solution design discussions.
- Decompose business requirements into technical tasks with accurate effort estimation.
- Document solutions, features, and system components clearly and thoroughly.
- Perform reverse engineering and analysis to understand existing codebases.
Required Skills & Experience
Core Technical Skills
- 6+ years of hands-on Golang development experience.
- Strong experience with distributed systems.
- Prior experience with Kubernetes and Terraform.
- Comfortable working with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
- Experience with containerization technologies: Docker, Kubernetes.
- Messaging systems experience: NATS, Kafka, Kinesis.
- Strong Linux background:
- Hands-on Linux environment experience
- PKI certificate management
- SSH key management
- Experience with authentication & access technologies:
- SSO, MFA
- LDAP / Active Directory
- LDAP queries, schema, filters
- Experience with SQL & NoSQL databases.
- Experience with Git/GitHub version control.
General Engineering Skills
- Ability to lead technical initiatives as a senior-level engineer.
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Self-driven, proactive, and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience with AI / Video pipelines.
- Experience building MCP servers.
- Prior frontend experience (React) is a plus.
- 2+ years of experience with Python.
- Experience working with private cloud environments.
- Certifications in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform.
- Experience developing with C or JavaScript.
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