Go Engineer with AWS experience (NCS/Job/ 3742)

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Go Engineer with deep AWS experience to help build and modernize large-scale cloud-native platforms. This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives in hands-on backend development, distributed systems, Kubernetes, and AWS-native architectures.

You will work on modernizing and scaling containerized platforms running on Amazon EKS while actively building production-grade services in Go. The role combines strong software engineering fundamentals with cloud infrastructure expertise — requiring someone who can design systems, write high-quality code, and operate reliable services in production.

You’ll be part of a high-impact engineering team working closely with platform engineers, QA, DevOps, and data teams in a fast-paced Agile environment.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services in Go (Go 1.20+) with strong emphasis on performance, concurrency, resiliency, and clean architecture
• Build and enhance cloud-native applications running on AWS and Kubernetes
• Develop REST/gRPC APIs, asynchronous services, event-driven workflows, and distributed microservices
• Design and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices
• Deploy and operate workloads on Amazon EKS with production-grade Kubernetes standards
• Build reusable platform tooling, deployment templates, automation scripts, and internal developer utilities
• Own CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar tooling
• Implement observability and monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, logging pipelines, and distributed tracing
• Collaborate with architecture, QA, security, and data engineering teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and operational excellence
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across application, Kubernetes, networking, and AWS infrastructure layers
• Drive engineering best practices including code reviews, testing strategies, documentation, and operational readiness
• Contribute to platform modernization initiatives, including migration of legacy/on-prem workloads into AWS-native environments

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with strong backend development expertise
• 5+ years of hands-on Go development experience in production environments
• Strong proficiency in:
• Go concurrency patterns
• Goroutines and channels
• REST/gRPC services
• Microservices architecture
• API design and distributed systems
• Experience with mainstream Go frameworks/libraries such as Gin, Echo, gRPC, or net/http
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS services including:
• EKS
• EC2
• IAM
• VPC
• S3
• RDS/Aurora
• ALB/NLB
• Route 53
• CloudWatch
• Secrets Manager
• KMS
• Strong Kubernetes expertise including:
• Deployments and scaling
• Ingress controllers
• Helm
• RBAC
• Networking
• Autoscaling
• Workload security
• Troubleshooting production clusters
• Strong Terraform experience including reusable modules, remote state management, CI/CD integration, and multi-environment deployments
• Hands-on Docker/containerization experience including image optimization and security hardening
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, testing methodologies, and code quality standards
• Excellent debugging and production troubleshooting capabilities

Strongly Preferred

• Experience building internal developer platforms or platform engineering capabilities
• Prior experience migrating workloads from on-premises Kubernetes environments to AWS/EKS
• Exposure to event streaming and messaging systems such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SNS/SQS
• GitOps experience with ArgoCD or Flux
• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd
• Familiarity with distributed tracing and observability stacks
• Experience with high-scale, multi-tenant, or mission-critical systems
• AWS Certifications, CKA, or CKAD certifications
• Exposure to Java/Spring Boot ecosystems is a plus

What Success Looks Like

• Delivering high-quality, production-ready Go services at scale
• Building secure, reliable, and observable AWS-native systems
• Driving automation and operational excellence across engineering workflows
• Contributing to scalable platform architecture and modernization initiatives
• Acting as a technical leader and mentor within the engineering organization

Tech Stack

Languages: Go, Bash, Python (nice to have)

Cloud: AWS

Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

CI/CD: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions

Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch

Databases: PostgreSQL, Aurora, MySQL

Version Control: Git