Principal Golang Architect

Role                       : Principal Golang Architect

Location               : Menlo Park CA (Remote)

Role Type            : Contract

Job Description

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 is highly preferred.

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

‣ Istio/Envoy, Kafka, Terraform, ArgoCD are strongly preferred.