Senior Go Cloud‑Native Architect – Enterprise Kubernetes & AI

ZealHire Inc.

Menlo Park, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

5 hours ago
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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

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.

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