Principal Golang Architect

ThoughtStorm Inc.; California (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ThoughtStorm Inc. is seeking a Principal Cloud-Native Architect with deep hands-on experience in Golang, Kubernetes, AWS and EKS to design and scale enterprise cloud-native platforms.

You will lead architecture decisions, drive platform reliability, and partner with ops and product teams. Requirements include 12+ years in software/IT, strong Go development, Kubernetes architecture, and robust experience with Docker, Helm, CI/CD and GitOps.

Qualifications

• 12+ years overall software/IT experience.
• Strong hands-on Golang development and architecture.
• Extensive Kubernetes and AWS/EKS expertise.
• Experience with Docker, Helm, CI/CD and GitOps.
• Observability with Prometheus, Grafana or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with AI integration: RAG, MCP/LLM on cloud-native platforms.
• Multi-cluster Kubernetes federation and scalability focus.
• Production troubleshooting, resiliency and high availability.

Skills

Golang development

Go architecture

Enterprise distributed systems

Microservices architecture

11+ years experience

Kubernetes architecture

AWS/EKS

Production troubleshooting

Tools

Docker

Helm

CI/CD

GitOps

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Position Overview: We are looking for a highly specialized Principal Cloud-Native Architect with strong hands-on expertise in Golang, Kubernetes, AWS, EKS(Elastic Kubernetes Service), and distributed systems.

Please submit candidates who have built and architected enterprise-scale cloud-native platforms—not candidates with only application deployment or basic Kubernetes administration experience.

Must-Have Skills:

• 12+ years overall software/IT experience.
• Strong hands-on Golang/Go development and Architecture.
• Strong experience with Docker, Helm, CI/CD, GitOps and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or enterprise observability.
• Agentic AI, RAG, MCP/LLM integration with cloud-native platforms is Required.
• Strong AWS / EKS architecture experience.
• Enterprise distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Experience with Kubernetes multi-cluster / federation is highly preferred.
• Strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, high availability and production troubleshooting.