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Sira Consulting, an Inc 5000 company

Go Software Engineer (Sr.)

On site

Irvine, United states

Senior

Freelance

02-12-2025

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Skills

Java Go Cassandra GitHub Monitoring Jenkins Test Architecture Programming AWS Kafka Prometheus Grafana Microservices

Job Specifications

What You'll Do:

Develop and maintain services to meet reliability and scalability demands.
Develop and enhance monitoring services.
Extend and build new libraries for cross-cutting concerns that comprise/extend to the entirety of CrowdStrike's cloud platform, which consists of hundreds of libraries and services.
Constantly re-evaluate our product to improve architecture, knowledge models, user experience, performance and stability.
Use and give back to the open source community.
Evangelize best practices for building software, especially as pertains to Go.
Brainstorm, define, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams.
Obsess about learning, and champion the newest technologies & tricks with others, raising the technical IQ of the team.
Mentor other developers on web, backend and data storage technologies and our system.
Update OSS dependencies as needed
Be mentored and mentor other developers on web security, authentication and authorization strategies.
Be an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables.

What You'll Need:

8+ years of full-time experience in a service-oriented backend developer role
5+ years developing microservices for a SaaS product
Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems).
Expert-level knowledge of Golang
The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you.
The desire to ship code and the love of seeing your bits run in production.
Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges.
Deep understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies.
Jenkins, Argo, Grafana, Graphite, Prometheus
Team player skills – we embrace collaborating as a team as much as possible.
A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture.
The ability to thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment.
The skills to meet your commitments on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.

Bonus Points:

Contributions to the open source community (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging).
Existing exposure to Java, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch, etc.
Prior experience in the cybersecurity or intelligence

About the Company

SiRA Consulting is a Certified MBE consulting company that was founded in 2012. As the business world continues to grow and develop, new technologies are appearing in order to help keep up with demand. These technologies can change as rapidly as the rest of the business landscape and it can sometimes feel hard to keep up with. Our IT services can help smooth the path between technology and business, helping to keep companies competitive without being forced to hire an expensive in-house team, or waste the valuable time of s... Know more