Principal Golang Architect (Remote)

Connect Tech+Talent; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Connect Tech+Talent is seeking a highly specialized Principal Cloud-Native Architect with strong hands-on expertise in Go, Kubernetes, AWS, EKS, and distributed systems. This senior role focuses on architecting enterprise-scale cloud-native platforms, not mere deployment tasks.

The ideal candidate brings 12+ years of experience, deep Go proficiency, and a proven track record in observability, AI integration, and multi-cluster Kubernetes architectures to ensure scalable, resilient systems.

Qualifications

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

Skills

Go development

Architecture

CI/CD

GitOps

Infrastructure automation

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Agentic AI / RAG integration

Distributed systems

Microservices

Kubernetes

Kubernetes federation

Scalability

Resiliency

High availability

Production troubleshooting

Tools

Docker

Helm

CI/CD tooling

GitOps tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Prometheus

Grafana

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.

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.