Principal Golang Architect

Direct Client Requirements; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Direct Client Requirements is seeking a Principal Cloud-Native Architect with hands-on Golang, Kubernetes, AWS, and EKS expertise to design and scale large distributed systems in a production environment in Los Angeles.

You will own architecture, guide implementation, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve reliability, performance, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software/IT experience.
• Hands-on Golang development and architecture.
• Experience with Docker, Helm, CI/CD, GitOps and infra automation.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or observability.
• Agentic AI, RAG, MCP/LLM integration with cloud-native platforms.
• Distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Kubernetes multi-cluster/federation experience preferred.
• Strong scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, high availability and production troubleshooting.

Skills

Golang/Go development

Cloud-native architecture

Kubernetes

AWS/EKS

CI/CD & GitOps

Distributed systems

Observability

Failover & HA

Production troubleshooting

Tools

Docker

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

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.

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.
• 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.