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100% Required Principal Golang Architect, CA (Local Only)

VISION INFOTECH INC.San Diego, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 23, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

As a Principal Golang Architect, you'll leverage your deep expertise to drive innovative cloud-native solutions and shape architectural strategies within a reputable company. This hybrid role offers competitive hourly compensation and is ideal for experienced Golang professionals seeking to make a significant impact and further develop their leadership skills. Apply today to explore this exciting opportunity!

Quick Overview

Salary
$100 - $115/hr
Seniority
Leader
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
San Diego, CA, United States
Posted
2 days ago
DockerMicroservicesAWSEnvoyArgoCDGoGrafanaHelmIstioKafkaKubernetesLLMPrometheusTerraform

Job Description

Hello,

Hope you’re doing well!!

Please find the requirement below. If you find yourself comfortable with the requirement, please reply with your updated resume or call me back at 

Position :: Principal Golang Architect

Location:: CA (Remote, Local Only)

Duration :: 12 Months

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Job Description:

Principal Golang Architect Location: Menlo Park, CA Duration: 12 Month Contract Visa: Independent Visa excluding OPT Rate:$100-115/hr Position Overview: We are looking for a highly specialized Principal Cloud-Native Architect with strong hands-on expertise in Golang, Kubernetes, AWS, EKS(Elastic Kubernetes Service), and distributed systems. Please submit candidates who have built and architected enterprise-scale cloud-native platforms—not candidates with only application deployment or basic Kubernetes administration experience. 

 

Must-Have Skills: 

‣ 12+ years overall software/IT experience. 

‣ Strong hands-on Golang/Go development and Architecture. 

‣ Strong experience with Docker, Helm, CI/CD, GitOps and infrastructure automation. 

‣ Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or enterprise observability. 

‣ Agentic AI, RAG, MCP/LLM integration with cloud-native platforms is Required. 

‣ Expert-level Kubernetes engineering. 

‣ Hands-on Kubernetes Operators, Controllers, CRDs, Kubebuilder, Controller-Runtime/Operator SDK. 

‣ Strong AWS / EKS architecture experience. 

‣ Enterprise distributed systems and microservices architecture. 

‣ Experience with Kubernetes multi-cluster / federation. 

‣ Strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, high availability and production troubleshooting. 

‣ Istio/Envoy, Kafka, Terraform, ArgoCD.

 

Pre-Screening Questions:

  • Q1: Does the candidate have strong hands-on experience developing and architecting enterprise-scale applications/platforms using Golang (Go), Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies, rather than only application deployment or basic Kubernetes administration?
  • Q2: Does the candidate have hands-on expert-level Kubernetes engineering experience, including Operators, Controllers, CRDs, Kubebuilder, Controller-Runtime, or Operator SDK?
  • Q3: Does the candidate have hands-on experience architecting AWS/EKS-based enterprise distributed systems and microservices, including scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, high availability, and production troubleshooting?
  • Q4: Does the candidate have hands-on experience integrating Agentic AI, RAG, MCP, or LLM-based capabilities with cloud-native platforms or distributed systems?

Thanks & Regards

Vinay Kumar

Senior Technical Recruiter

VISION INFOTECH INC

Phone:
Email:  
368 Main Street, st #3, Melrose MA 02176

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