Senior Go Engineer - Real-Time Data Pipelines

Litmus; Canada; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Litmus in Canada is building the data foundation that powers industrial AI. We’re looking for a Senior Golang Engineer to own high-throughput data pipelines and real-time streams that ingest, transform, and route industrial data at scale, across edge and cloud environments.

You’ll work on distributed systems at production scale, focusing on reliability and performance while collaborating with platform and edge teams to ship features that run in production factories worldwide.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with strong Go
• Experience building data pipelines, stream processing, or high-throughput distributed services
• Hands-on with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments
• Comfortable working in Linux/Unix environments day-to-day
• Solid grasp of concurrency, performance tuning, and memory management in Go
• Experience with messaging systems (NATS, Kafka, MQTT, or similar)
• Solid understanding of databases, including time-series or NoSQL stores
• A track record of owning critical production services and seeing problems through to resolution

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance data processing services in Go that handle real-time telemetry at industrial scale
• Own data pipelines end-to-end, from ingestion and transformation to routing and delivery
• Optimize for throughput, latency, and reliability in systems that can't afford to drop data
• Build streaming integrations on top of messaging systems like NATS and MQTT
• Collaborate with platform and edge teams to ship features that work in both cloud and constrained edge environments
• Drive observability into everything you build so issues surface before customers feel them
• Write clean, testable Go code with proper error handling, and raise the bar through thoughtful code reviews

Skills

Go backend development

Data pipelines / streaming

Distributed systems design

Linux/Unix proficiency

Concurrency & performance tuning

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

NATS

Kafka

MQTT

TimescaleDB

InfluxDB

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Litmus in Canada is building the data foundation that powers industrial AI. We’re looking for a Senior Golang Engineer to own high-throughput data pipelines and real-time streams that ingest, transform, and route industrial data at scale, across edge and cloud environments.

You’ll work on distributed systems at production scale, focusing on reliability and performance while collaborating with platform and edge teams to ship features that run in production factories worldwide.