Senior Golang Engineer

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 #J-18808-Ljbffr GCS Recruitment