Principal Go Engineer - High-Impact, Remote (EU Hours)

HeadHR; Łódź; Hybrid; PLN 562,000 - 821,000; Full time

Job summary

HeadHR is seeking a Principal Go Engineer for a distributed data and analytics platform. You will code, own architecture, and optimize critical components running on Kubernetes in cloud and on-prem environments.

You will lead high-scale data pipelines, define data flows with Kafka and PostgreSQL, and mentor engineers while collaborating with DevOps and product teams to resolve incidents.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software development with strong Go expertise.
• Role options include Tech Lead, Staff, or Principal Engineer.
• Ownership of high-availability, high-volume distributed systems.
• Advanced Go capabilities including concurrency and profiling.
• Experience with microservices, REST, and distributed patterns.
• Kafka or similar messaging and advanced PostgreSQL skills.
• Production Docker & Kubernetes experience.
• Fluent English communication and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable Go backend services and data pipelines.
• Lead architecture decisions on scalability, consistency, and disaster recovery.
• Optimize Go performance at CPU, memory, and concurrency levels.
• Raise code quality and observability standards.
• Mentor engineers and lead cross-team technical initiatives.
• Collaborate with DevOps and product teams; resolve incidents.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Leadership

Observability

Troubleshooting

Performance optimization

Concurrency

Architecture decisions

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Ansible

OpenTelemetry

Job description

HeadHR is seeking a Principal Go Engineer for a distributed data and analytics platform. You will code, own architecture, and optimize critical components running on Kubernetes in cloud and on-prem environments.

You will lead high-scale data pipelines, define data flows with Kafka and PostgreSQL, and mentor engineers while collaborating with DevOps and product teams to resolve incidents.