Golang Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Cynosure Corporate Solutions; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cynosure Corporate Solutions is seeking an experienced backend engineer to build scalable Go services and microservices architectures. You will design and implement high-performance APIs, enable service-to-service communication with gRPC/REST, and drive observability across distributed systems.

You will work with Docker/Kubernetes for containerized deployments, and leverage Kafka or RabbitMQ for asynchronous processing while optimizing concurrency and system throughput in production environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience.
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Responsibilities

• Build high-performance backend services using Go.
• Develop APIs and microservices with Gin, Echo, or Fiber.
• Design scalable distributed systems and backend architectures.
• Build service-to-service communication using gRPC and REST APIs.
• Develop asynchronous and event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Containerize and deploy services using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Optimize concurrency, memory usage, and backend system performance.
• Implement observability, distributed tracing, and monitoring solutions.
• Work on API gateway integration, traffic routing, load balancing, and authentication mechanisms.
• Collaborate with engineering teams for architecture design, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Ensure system scalability, fault tolerance, and resilience in production environments.

Skills

Golang

Backend development

Microservices

API design

Concurrency optimization

RESTful APIs

Observability

Service discovery

API gateways

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

gRPC

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

OpenTelemetry

Jaeger

Grafana

Job description

Cynosure Corporate Solutions | Full time

Cynosure Corporate Solutions is a human capital services company. Our focus is to provide Executive Search, Recruitment, Training, Temporary Staffing services, Statutory Compliance's, and other HR aligned services. We understand the business goals of our clients and their need to align human resources to these goals. We are committed to provide high quality manpower in accordance to global standards and their requirements. Our candidates stand testimony to our professional competency.

We work with clients in IT/ITES, Manufacturing, Automobile, Health, Telecom, Media.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Build high-performance backend services using Go (Golang)
• Develop APIs and microservices using frameworks such as Gin, Echo, or Fiber
• Design and implement scalable distributed systems and backend architectures
• Build service-to-service communication using gRPC and REST APIs
• Develop asynchronous and event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Containerize and deploy services using Docker and Kubernetes
• Optimize concurrency, memory usage, and backend system performance
• Implement observability, distributed tracing, and monitoring solutions
• Work on API gateway integration, traffic routing, load balancing, and authentication mechanisms
• Collaborate with engineering teams for architecture design, deployment, and troubleshooting
• Ensure system scalability, fault tolerance, and resilience in production environments

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 5+ years of backend development experience
• Minimum 2+ years of hands-on Golang development experience in production environments
• Strong experience with Go frameworks/libraries such as Gin, Echo, Fiber, and gRPC
• Experience designing and building microservices and distributed systems
• Strong understanding of goroutines, channels, concurrency patterns, and performance optimization
• Experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ for asynchronous/event-driven systems
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of REST APIs and service-to-service communication
• Experience with distributed tracing and observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or Grafana
• Knowledge of service discovery tools such as Consul, etcd, or Kubernetes-native discovery
• Experience with API gateways and traffic management tools like Kong, NGINX, or Istio
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis
• Understanding of scalability, resilience patterns, and backend architecture principles
• Good debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in high-scale production environments
• Exposure to cloud-native architectures
• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD practices
• Experience with security, authentication, and rate-limiting implementations