H1B Only - 100% Remote - Golang Observability Engineer

[Tansheer Aalam]

Role: Golang Observability Engineer

Location: Remote

Duration: Long Term Contract – C2C

Interview: Video

 

About the role
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Golang Observability Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. The ideal candidate will be a proficient Go developer with a strong focus on building, scaling, and optimizing observability solutions. You will be responsible for designing and implementing the core systems that enable developers to understand, debug, and monitor their applications across a distributed, high-performance environment. 

 

Responsibilities

• Key responsibilities include designing and developing scalable Go-based software for observability tooling and implementing the core platform for monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing.
• The role involves implementing and managing instrumentation like OpenTelemetry collectors, using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform for cloud platform management, and collaborating with other teams to define observability standards.
• Other duties include troubleshooting and optimizing systems, developing alerting and anomaly detection, using observability data for incident response, and ensuring code quality through reviews. 

 

Qualifications:

• Candidates should have a degree in Computer Science or a related field with experience in backend application development.
• Strong Golang proficiency, including writing clean and efficient code for distributed environments, is essential.
• Extensive experience with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and logging solutions is required.
• A deep understanding of cloud-native technologies, microservices, and experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) is necessary.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) is also expected, along with knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Scripting skills (Bash or Python) are a plus.
• Essential soft skills include problem-solving, communication, and collaboration.