Principal Golang & Kubernetes Architect

Position Title: Principal Golang & Kubernetes Architect

Location: Remote (PST)

Duration: 6+ months

Job Description:

We are looking for a highly specialized Principal Cloud-Native Architect with strong hands-on expertise in Golang, Kubernetes, AWS/EKS, 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:

Agentic AI and Istio/Envoy

12+ years overall software/IT experience.

Strong hands-on Golang/Go development.

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.