Go Software Engineer (Senior)

Go Software Engineer (Senior)
Location: Bay Area, CA / Irvine, CA
Job Type: C2C | Hybrid
Pay Rate: $70/hr
Industry: Cybersecurity / Cloud Native Threat Detection
End Date: 19-Nov-2026

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Go Software Engineer to support CrowdStrikes cloud-native cybersecurity platform. The role involves building and optimizing backend services, enhancing monitoring tools, and contributing to core architectural components used across the Falcon platform. The engineer will work on large-scale distributed systems, drive performance improvements, contribute to open-source tools, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to strengthen platform scalability and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services focused on scalability and reliability.
• Build and enhance monitoring services using tools like Grafana and Prometheus.
• Extend and develop shared libraries used across CrowdStrikes platform.
• Evaluate architecture, performance, user experience, and stability for continuous improvement.
• Contribute to and utilize open-source components.
• Promote best practices in Go development and backend engineering.
• Collaborate across teams to define features and build robust solutions.
• Mentor developers on backend, web, and security technologies.
• Update OSS dependencies and support secure coding practices.
• Take ownership of deliverables and contribute to a high-performing engineering culture.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend development experience.
• 5+ years building microservices for SaaS products.
• Expert-level knowledge of Go (Golang).
• Strong foundation in distributed systems, concurrency, parallel processing.
• Experience scaling backend systems (sharding, partitioning, horizontal scaling).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Argo) and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus).
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in algorithms/data structures.
• Experience in test-driven, collaborative, fast-paced environments.
• Ability to produce high-quality, secure, and production-ready code.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Java, AWS, Cassandra, Kafka, Elasticsearch.
• Contributions to open-source community (GitHub, blogs, StackOverflow).
• Background in cybersecurity or intelligence systems.