Senior Go & Kubernetes Engineer - Remote (FedRAMP)

Nuxt; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Rancher Government Solutions (RGS) seeks a Senior Software Engineer with Kubernetes and Go expertise to join our Federal Product Engineering Team, delivering cloud-native solutions for U.S. federal agencies.

You will design scalable, secure systems aligned with zero-trust architectures and compliance standards. As part of an agile team, you will contribute to CI/CD, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code using Helm and Kustomize, while mentoring junior engineers and ensuring resilient performance in

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with at least 4 years in Go.
• Deep Kubernetes deployment and development pattern knowledge (manifests, controllers, RBAC).
• Experience with Linux environments and Git workflows.
• U.S. Citizenship required for federal programs.

Responsibilities

• Develop robust Golang applications and microservices for secure, gov-ready environments.
• Implement Kubernetes patterns including controllers, operators, and CRDs.
• Automate testing, packaging, and deployment via CI/CD pipelines to Kubernetes clusters.
• Build IaC and GitOps solutions using Helm and Kustomize; collaborate with security teams.

Skills

Go

Kubernetes

Linux

CI/CD

Git

Helm

Kustomize

RBAC

Mentorship

Tools

Helm

Kustomize

Istio

Job description

Rancher Government Solutions (RGS) seeks a Senior Software Engineer with Kubernetes and Go expertise to join our Federal Product Engineering Team, delivering cloud-native solutions for U.S. federal agencies.

You will design scalable, secure systems aligned with zero-trust architectures and compliance standards. As part of an agile team, you will contribute to CI/CD, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code using Helm and Kustomize, while mentoring junior engineers and ensuring resilient performance in