Golang with AWS (Independent visa, W2/1099 only)

Role: Senior Golang Engineer (5–8 Years)
 
Location: Irvine CA- Onsite
 
Role Description
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Golang Engineer with 5–8 years of experience in
building scalable, cloud-native backend systems and distributed microservices. The role
involves designing high-performance APIs, real-time data processing systems, event-driven
architectures, and deploying resilient applications on AWS and Kubernetes environments.
 
Must-Have Skills
Strong hands-on experience in Golang (Go) development
Expertise in building microservices, REST APIs, and gRPC-based services
Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, multithreading, and
performance optimization
Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services such as EC2, EKS, ECS, S3,
Lambda, API Gateway, and CloudWatch
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and container orchestration
Strong exposure to Kafka/RabbitMQ and event-driven architectures
Experience with PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, or other distributed
databases