Golang Specialist

FOCUSKPI INC; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading high-tech SaaS company seeks a Golang Specialist. You will join a new team focused on enhancing the Go ecosystem and support software development across multiple product teams. With a competitive 6-month remote contract, this position requires a strong background in Go and extensive programming experience.

Qualifications

• Expert software programmer with 8+ years of industry experience.
• Proficient in Go lang for large-scale software building.
• Experience in C/C++, profiling, and operating systems internals is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Advance the Go ecosystem in Dropbox’s rServer monorepo.
• Drive projects related to SDK/runtime upgrades and third-party Go libraries.
• Provide business hours support for Go lang tooling and best practices.

Skills

Golang

Bazel

C/C++

Profiling and performance optimization

Job description

FocusKPI is looking for a Golang Specialist to join one of our clients, a high-tech SaaS company.

Repo Rangers is a new team with a dedicated mission of accelerating the pace of software development and strengthening security and compliance in our client’s rServer monorepo . The team will make foundational investments in libraries, packages, and tools for two largest languages at Dropbox (viz. Py and Go). They will help develop deep expertise, bring cutting edge tools, establish best practices, and provide hands on guidance and support to platform and product teams across the company.

Work Location: Remote - anywhere in the US (working EMEA business hours and should be prepared to take an evening meeting with US folks once or twice per week)
Duration: 6-month contract
Pay Range: $70/hr to $75.50/hr

No C2C resumes are considered

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for helping advance the Go ecosystem in Dropbox’s rServer monorepo.
• Drive a broad variety of projects such as periodically upgrading rServer to latest Go SDK/runtime, building tooling for integrating and updating third party Go lang libraries into rServrer,
• Upgrade foundational first party and third party Go lang libraries, enhancing tooling for debugging and IDE integration, supporting linters and static analysis tools.
• Integrate Go lang tooling with dependency management software,
• Improve documentation and best practices to support Go developer journey, and adoption state of art profiling and performance optimization techniques.
• Collaborate closely with full time employees in Repo Rangers, Build Toolchains, and other infrastructure and platform teams.
• Provide business hours support for all things Go lang.

Qualifications:

• An expert software programmer with 8+ years of industry experience and proficiency in Go lang.
• Experience with building large scale software using Bazel,
• Experience writing and patching library code, and experience in C/C++.
• Experience with profiling and performance optimization and operating systems internals is a strong plus.

No C2C resumes are considered

Thank you!

FocusKPI Hiring Team

Founded in 2010, FocusKPI, Inc. (FocusKPI) is a data science and technology firm specializing in predictive analytics practice and methodologies. FocusKPI is a US company headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, with an East Coast office in Boston, Massachusetts.