Principal Golang Architect

Innovatix Technology Partners; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Innovatix Technology Partners is seeking a Principal Golang Architect for a remote, 12-month engagement. You will lead hands-on development and design for cloud-native solutions, leveraging Golang, Kubernetes, and AWS to build scalable distributed systems.

The role emphasizes expertise in multi-cluster environments, observability, and robust CI/CD automation. Candidates should demonstrate strong problem-solving, production troubleshooting, and a track record of delivering reliable cloud-native

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software/IT, with hands-on leadership in cloud-native architectures.
• Proficient in Golang development and architecture for distributed systems.
• Deep experience with Docker, Helm, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps automation.
• Strong observability stack exposure: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Expert Kubernetes engineering, including Operators, CRDs, and controller-runtime.
• AWS/EKS architecture expertise and multi-cluster federation is highly valued.
• Experience with Istio/Envoy, Kafka, Terraform, and ArgoCD preferred.
• Knowledge of scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, and production troubleshooting.

Skills

Golang development

Architecture design

Kubernetes engineering

AWS/EKS architecture

Distributed systems

Microservices

Observability

GitOps / CI/CD

Multi-cluster / federation

Scalability & resilience

Istio/Envoy

Tools

Docker

Helm

CI/CD

GitOps

Kubectl

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

ArgoCD

Job description

Role: Principal Golang Architect

Job type: W2

Mode of Work: Remote

Duration: 12 Months

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.

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.
• Expert-level Kubernetes engineering.
• Hands-on Kubernetes Operators, Controllers, CRDs, Kubebuilder, Controller-Runtime/Operator SDK.
• 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.
• Istio/Envoy, Kafka, Terraform, ArgoCD are strongly preferred.