Lead Software Engineer - Go, Cloud-Native Architect, Scale

CloudFactory; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Working Model

Comprehensive medical cover

Group life insurance

Personal development and growth

Job summary

CloudFactory is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to guide the technical direction of our cloud-native platform and ensure reliable, secure, and scalable systems. You will collaborate with Product and client teams to shape architecture, resolve trade-offs, and mentor senior engineers across the organization.

You will lead cross-team architectural decisions, drive platform reliability at scale, and evolve CI/CD and IaC practices while partnering with stakeholders to deliver high-impact solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years designing, building, and operating distributed software at scale.
• Deep Go (Golang) expertise with idiomatic, concurrent code across teams.
• Expert cloud-native proficiency (Kubernetes, IaC) and organizational standards.
• Extensive experience with AWS or GCP, networking, and cloud security at scale.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for cloud-native platform across multiple teams.
• Own reliability, performance, and security of production systems, primarily in Go.
• Drive CI/CD, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code practices across the organization.
• Define and uphold standards for reliability, security, and observability.

Skills

Go proficiency

Kubernetes

Terraform/CloudFormation

AWS/GCP

Distributed architecture

CI/CD automation

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

New Relic

Prometheus

ELK

Job description

CloudFactory is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to guide the technical direction of our cloud-native platform and ensure reliable, secure, and scalable systems. You will collaborate with Product and client teams to shape architecture, resolve trade-offs, and mentor senior engineers across the organization.

You will lead cross-team architectural decisions, drive platform reliability at scale, and evolve CI/CD and IaC practices while partnering with stakeholders to deliver high-impact solutions.