Senior Go Developer – Cloud & Media Services

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer with deep expertise in Go and Google Cloud Platform to design and scale high‑performance microservices for live event management, media processing, and hybrid edge‑caching solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain production‑grade Go microservices using gRPC, Protocol Buffers, grpc‑gateway, and REST APIs.
• Build backend services for live event lifecycle, media ingestion, inspection, asset export, and distribution workflows.
• Develop event‑driven solutions with Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Workflows.
• Integrate with Google Cloud media products such as Live Stream API, Transcoder API, Video Intelligence, and Vision AI.
• Collaborate with DevOps on Kubernetes deployments, Helm charts, Terraform, Istio, and GKE rollouts.

Required profile

• 5+ years of professional backend development experience, including 3+ years building production applications in Go.
• Strong knowledge of Go concurrency, context management, error handling, and service reliability.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform services (GKE, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, IAM, etc.).
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and Istio concepts.
• Advanced English communication skills and ability to work within Central Time business hours.

Required skills

• Go
• gRPC, Protocol Buffers, grpc‑gateway, REST
• Google Cloud Platform (GKE, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Cloud Workflows, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Secret Manager, IAM)
• Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Istio
• MySQL or PostgreSQL, Redis/Memorystore
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build)
• Testing frameworks (Testify, GoMock, SQLMock, k6, Locust)
• Observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Trace)

What we offer

• Paid holidays based on client calendar
• 15 business days of vacation
• Health allowance
• Annual learning budget
• Company‑provided computer