Senior Go Engineer

PeoplePilot; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

PeoplePilot is seeking a Senior Go Engineer to build scalable backend services and cloud-based platform systems in the networking and security domain. The role blends backend engineering, network infrastructure expertise, and modern agentic AI-driven development practices to deliver production-grade distributed systems.

The position requires immediate joiners (15 days notice) and emphasizes hands-on Go, RESTful APIs, microservices, and AWS-based infrastructure across Terraform/Ansible managed

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.

Skills

Go/Golang

Backend engineering

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Distributed systems

Networking fundamentals

AWS

Terraform/Ansible

CI/CD

Monitoring/Observability

Bash scripting

Agentic AI

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS (EC2/Route53/S3)

CI/CD tools

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Go Engineer to build scalable backend services and cloud-based platform systems in the networking and security domain. The role combines backend engineering, network infrastructure expertise, and modern agentic AI-driven development practices to deliver production-grade distributed systems.

REQUIRES IMMEDIATE JOINERS (15 DAYS NOTICE)

Must-Have Skills (Strict – Non-Negotiable)

• Should have 8+years of experience
• Relevant 5+ years (Go Lang) of professional software engineering experience in backend, cloud, network, or infrastructure systems
• Strong hands-on experience with Go / Golang for building scalable backend services
• Experience building RESTful APIs and service-to-service communication
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems

Networking & Security Fundamentals

• Strong knowledge of:
• TCP / UDP / DNS
• Load balancing and protocol analysis
• HTTP / HTTPS / TLS and secure communication
• Hands-on experience with network infrastructure and system-level troubleshooting
• The candidate must have worked for last couple of years on networking domain-based projects. So, they must have strong familiarity with technologies like:
• TCP/IP networking
• UDP
• DNS
• HTTP/HTTPS
• IP addressing and subnetting etc.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS, Route53, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, ASGs)
• Experience with:
• Virtual machines and cloud platforms
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Ansible)

Systems & DevOps Practices

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, CodePipeline, etc.)
• Experience with monitoring & observability (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Proficiency in Bash/scripting for automation
• Understanding of testing methodologies, regression testing, and production support

Good-to-Have Skills

Agentic AI & Modern Engineering

• Agent orchestration via MCP or similar tools
• Strong proficiency in:
• LLMs and prompt engineering
• Structured output generation and validation
• Experience implementing:
• AI system evaluation (quality gates, monitoring)
• Reliability and cost optimization strategies
• Experience with:
• Python for automation or tooling
• Advanced observability improvements (alerting, logging, monitoring optimization)
• Secure and scalable network infrastructure
• Kubernetes-based service deployments and troubleshooting
• Exposure to:
• Hybrid cloud / OpenStack environments
• Cloud networking, routing, firewall policies, traffic flows
• Familiarity with modern web technologies (adjacent systems)

Bonus / Nice-to-Have (Domain Depth / Edge Differentiators)

• Experience with network security or cloud security platforms
• Certifications: