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Job Title: Go API Developer
Position: Senior Software Engineer
Experience: 6 - 10 Years
Category: Software Development/ Engineering
Shift: General
Main location: Hyderabad
Position ID: J0726-1017
Employment Type: Full Time
Education Qualification: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or higher with minimum 6 years of relevant experience.
Position Description: We are seeking a Backend Software Engineer with strong experience in Go (Golang) to design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and cloud-native applications. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience building RESTful APIs, deploying applications on AWS, and working with modern DevOps tools and relational databases.
Your future duties and responsibilities
- Design and implement custom OpenTelemetry processors and extensions in Go for specialized telemetry processing requirements
- Build and maintain RESTful API proxy services with Swagger documentation to abstract OTEL SDK complexity from application teams
- Architect high availability collector deployments using AWS ECS Fargate, Network Load Balancers, and auto scaling configurations
- Implement advanced telemetry processing logic including sampling, filtering, enrichment, and routing strategies
- Maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform) for collector clusters, networking, and security configurations
- Optimize collector performance, memory usage, and throughput for enterprise scale telemetry volumes
- Create comprehensive documentation and developer tooling to accelerate observability platform adoption
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
Must-Have Skills:
- Expert level Go development for OTEL collector components, concurrent processing, and microservices
- Deep understanding of collector pipelines, receiver/processor/exporter patterns, and OTLP specifications
- RESTful service design, OpenAPI/Swagger documentation, authentication/authorization mechanisms
- ECS Fargate, Network Load Balancers, Route 53, security groups, and container orchestration
- Terraform expertise for cloud resource provisioning and configuration management
- Docker, container optimization, multi stage builds, and security best practices
- PostgreSQL connectivity, connection pooling, and telemetry data schema design
Good-to-Have Skills:
- Experience with OTEL Collector Contrib components and community contribution
- Knowledge of gRPC protocol implementation and performance optimization
- Background in distributed systems design and microservices architecture patterns
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for collector builds and deployment automation
- Understanding of enterprise security requirements for telemetry data handling and compliance frameworks
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