Principal Golang Architect

ZealHire Inc.; Menlo Park, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

ZealHire Inc. in Menlo Park, CA seeks a Principal Cloud-Native Architect with deep hands-on expertise in Golang, Kubernetes, AWS, and distributed systems. You will architect enterprise-scale cloud-native platforms and lead design decisions beyond basic deployment.

The ideal candidate has 12+ years of software/IT experience, strong Go development, and proven capabilities in multi-cluster Kubernetes, observability, and AI-enabled cloud-native solutions. Remote-friendly hybrid work is possible.

Qualifications

• 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.

Skills

Go Development

Kubernetes Architecture

AWS / EKS

Distributed Systems

CI/CD / GitOps

Observability

Multi-Cluster / Federation

Microservices

Automation

AI / LLM Integration

Tools

Docker

Helm

Kubebuilder

Controller-Runtime

Operators

Job description

LinkedIn should match resume and must be created before 2021 and professional wit picture and connections

SSN

DOB

2 manager reference with LinkedIn

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.
• 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.

Pre-Screening Questions:

• Q1: Does the candidate have strong hands-on experience developing and architecting enterprise-scale applications/platforms using Golang (Go), Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies, rather than only application deployment or basic Kubernetes administration?
• Q2: Does the candidate have hands-on expert-level Kubernetes engineering experience, including Operators, Controllers, CRDs, Kubebuilder, Controller-Runtime, or Operator SDK?
• Q3: Does the candidate have hands-on experience architecting AWS/EKS-based enterprise distributed systems and microservices, including scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, high availability, and production troubleshooting?
• Q4: Does the candidate have hands-on experience integrating Agentic AI, RAG, MCP, or LLM-based capabilities with cloud-native platforms or distributed systems?

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