Principal Go Engineer — Remote (European Hours)

Solid Company; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 527,000 - 791,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote in European hours

Hands-on leadership role

Challenging distributed systems scale

Job summary

Solid Company seeks a Principal Go Engineer to own architecture and performance for a distributed analytics platform. You will design scalable Go services, drive high-volume data pipelines on Kubernetes in cloud and on-prem environments.

You will lead architectural decisions, optimize CPU/memory usage, and mentor engineers across multiple teams while collaborating with DevOps and Product teams to ensure production reliability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years Go programming
• Hands-on leadership in tech leads or principal roles
• ownership of high-availability distributed systems
• Advanced Go: concurrency, memory, profiling, optimization

Responsibilities

• Design scalable Go backend services
• Build Kafka-based event-driven architecture and data flows
• Make architectural decisions on scalability, consistency, and disaster recovery
• Optimize Go performance at CPU, memory, and concurrency levels
• Raise coding standards, security, and observability
• Lead cross-team technical initiatives and mentor engineers
• Collaborate with DevOps and product teams; resolve production incidents

Skills

Observability

Troubleshooting

Architectural decisions

Leadership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Terraform

Helm

Ansible

Job description

Solid Company seeks a Principal Go Engineer to own architecture and performance for a distributed analytics platform. You will design scalable Go services, drive high-volume data pipelines on Kubernetes in cloud and on-prem environments.

You will lead architectural decisions, optimize CPU/memory usage, and mentor engineers across multiple teams while collaborating with DevOps and Product teams to ensure production reliability.