Lead Golang Software Engineer with Kubernetes & Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Position Summary & Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Build, test, operate, and improve platform engineering solutions.
• Own problems end-to-end, engaging with stakeholders to contribute to product roadmap, considering performance, observability, operations, and testing.
• Contribute to technical strategy and vision for the team via design and code review.
• Participate in shaping an effective software development lifecycle with a focus on customer support and root cause analysis.
• Uphold high engineering standards by providing technical leadership and assistance to internal and external product development teams, advocating for best practices.
• Mentor others on the team with a growth mindset.
• Diagnose and debug issues within the system or in downstream dependencies, working with other teams to resolve issues.
• Knowledgeable in cloud-native microservices architecture, data architecture, analytics, software/application architecture, and modern cloud security.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a Technical Discipline or equivalent work experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in software engineering, designing, and architecting enterprise solutions.
• 4+ years of experience integrating with REST APIs.
• 4+ years of experience working with Public Clouds (Google Cloud Platform).
• 4+ years of experience working with Kubernetes and containerized platforms.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
• Strong advocate for Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience designing and implementing multi-tenant SaaS systems.
• Experience with cloud-based technologies and enterprise-scale cloud adoption.
• Ability to document and publish recommendations and guidance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing distributed systems with considerations for performance, responsiveness, concurrency, availability, supportability, and observability.
• Platform engineering experience with PostgreSQL, GitOps, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Open Container Initiative (OCI) test infrastructure, Bazel, Golang, LaunchDarkly, and Okta.
• Familiarity with collaboration and issue tracking using GitHub.

General Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Expertise in Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience participating in open-source projects.
• In-depth knowledge of end-to-end systems development life cycles (including agile, iterative, and other modern approaches to software development).
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences at various levels (executive, management, individual contributors).
• Ability to estimate work effort for stories and epics, ensuring successful milestone completion.
• Ability to guide and advise on architecture and design best practices based on experience.
• Strong work ethic, positive outlook, and responsiveness to internal and external customers.
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and fostering team development.
• Knowledge of networking, computing platforms, storage, databases, security, middleware, systems management, and related infrastructure technologies.

Non-Negotiable Requirements:

• Golang, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Must have 3+ years of experience with