The Role
Develop and support scalable Go backend services and cloud-native platforms for OTT and digital media. Responsibilities include designing REST and gRPC APIs, integrating AWS services, building microservices, automating environments and deployments, implementing testing and observability, resolving production incidents, and supporting CI/CD and on-call operations. The role also provides technical leadership, estimates, risk assessments, mentoring, and collaboration with architects, product teams, and stakeholders.
Summary Generated by Built In
Project Role : Technology Platform Engineer
Project Role Description : Creates production and non-production cloud environments using the proper software tools such as a platform for a project or product. Deploys the automation pipeline and automates environment creation and configuration.
Must have skills : Go Programming Language
Good to have skills : AWS CloudFormation
Minimum 3 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education
ummary
As a Go Developer, a typical day involves designing, developing, and supporting scalable backend applications for OTT and digital media platforms. The role focuses on API development, AWS cloud integration, performance optimization, and production support using Go and cloud-native technologies. The candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions while following Agile and DevOps practices.
Roles & Responsibilities
Perform independently as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Go application development.
Design, develop, and enhance backend services using the Go programming language.
Build and consume RESTful and gRPC APIs supporting catalog management, metadata, entitlement, playback authorization, and device registration.
Integrate applications with AWS services including AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon API Gateway.
Develop efficient Go code using interfaces, structures, goroutines, channels, context propagation, and structured error handling.
Define API contracts, data models, concurrency models, caching strategies, and resiliency patterns.
Lead feature delivery from design through deployment and production stabilization.
Develop and maintain unit, integration, and regression test suites.
Participate in code reviews, CI/CD processes, and release activities.
Analyze production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and resolve performance issues.
Support deployment validation, rollback procedures, and operational readiness activities.
Provide effort estimates, technical guidance, and risk assessments.
Mentor developers and collaborate with architects, product teams, and stakeholders.
Participate in on-call and production support activities.
Professional & Technical Skills
Must-Have Skills
Strong experience in Go programming and AWS cloud development.
Experience building RESTful and GRPC APIs.
Strong knowledge of Go interfaces, structures, slices, maps, goroutines, channels, context propagation, error handling, and Go modules.
Experience with Go frameworks and routers such as Gin, Echo, Chi, or net/http.
Experience designing and implementing microservices architectures.
Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
Experience with Go testing table-driven tests, mocking, benchmarking, profiling, and race detection.
Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code.
Experience implementing Blue-Green and Canary deployment strategies.
Ability to troubleshoot distributed applications using logs, metrics, and monitoring tools.
Experience leading production incident management and technical reviews.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Good-To-Have Skills
Experience in OTT, Streaming, Broadcast, or Digital Media platforms.
Knowledge of HLS, DASH, DRM technologies including Wide vine, PlayReady, and Fair Play.
Understanding of Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI), and Video-on-Demand platforms.
Experience with AWS Elemental services including Media Live, Media Package, Media Connect, Media Convert, and Media Tailor.
Experience with Amazon CloudFront.
Experience with Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, and AWS Step Functions.
Experience with Terraform, AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), or AWS CloudFormation.
Knowledge of Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Redis, and Amazon Elasti Cache.
Experience with Grafana, Datadog, Elastic Stack, Splunk, and Open Telemetry.
AWS Developer Associate or AWS Solutions Architect certification.
Exposure to ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, and IT Service Management processes.
Experience supporting managed services and SLA-driven environments.
Additional Information
Minimum 9 years of relevant experience in Go and AWS cloud development.
Total experience requirement: 18 years (9+9 model).
Go Programming Language and AWS Cloud are the mandatory primary skills.
Experience in Agile, DevOps, and cloud-native environments is preferred.
Participation in production support and on-call activities may be required.
Minimum 15 years of full-time education required.
15 years full time education
Project Role Description : Creates production and non-production cloud environments using the proper software tools such as a platform for a project or product. Deploys the automation pipeline and automates environment creation and configuration.
Must have skills : Go Programming Language
Good to have skills : AWS CloudFormation
Minimum 3 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education
ummary
As a Go Developer, a typical day involves designing, developing, and supporting scalable backend applications for OTT and digital media platforms. The role focuses on API development, AWS cloud integration, performance optimization, and production support using Go and cloud-native technologies. The candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions while following Agile and DevOps practices.
Roles & Responsibilities
Perform independently as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Go application development.
Design, develop, and enhance backend services using the Go programming language.
Build and consume RESTful and gRPC APIs supporting catalog management, metadata, entitlement, playback authorization, and device registration.
Integrate applications with AWS services including AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate, Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon API Gateway.
Develop efficient Go code using interfaces, structures, goroutines, channels, context propagation, and structured error handling.
Define API contracts, data models, concurrency models, caching strategies, and resiliency patterns.
Lead feature delivery from design through deployment and production stabilization.
Develop and maintain unit, integration, and regression test suites.
Participate in code reviews, CI/CD processes, and release activities.
Analyze production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and resolve performance issues.
Support deployment validation, rollback procedures, and operational readiness activities.
Provide effort estimates, technical guidance, and risk assessments.
Mentor developers and collaborate with architects, product teams, and stakeholders.
Participate in on-call and production support activities.
Professional & Technical Skills
Must-Have Skills
Strong experience in Go programming and AWS cloud development.
Experience building RESTful and GRPC APIs.
Strong knowledge of Go interfaces, structures, slices, maps, goroutines, channels, context propagation, error handling, and Go modules.
Experience with Go frameworks and routers such as Gin, Echo, Chi, or net/http.
Experience designing and implementing microservices architectures.
Hands-on experience with AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
Experience with Go testing table-driven tests, mocking, benchmarking, profiling, and race detection.
Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code.
Experience implementing Blue-Green and Canary deployment strategies.
Ability to troubleshoot distributed applications using logs, metrics, and monitoring tools.
Experience leading production incident management and technical reviews.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Good-To-Have Skills
Experience in OTT, Streaming, Broadcast, or Digital Media platforms.
Knowledge of HLS, DASH, DRM technologies including Wide vine, PlayReady, and Fair Play.
Understanding of Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI), and Video-on-Demand platforms.
Experience with AWS Elemental services including Media Live, Media Package, Media Connect, Media Convert, and Media Tailor.
Experience with Amazon CloudFront.
Experience with Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, and AWS Step Functions.
Experience with Terraform, AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), or AWS CloudFormation.
Knowledge of Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Redis, and Amazon Elasti Cache.
Experience with Grafana, Datadog, Elastic Stack, Splunk, and Open Telemetry.
AWS Developer Associate or AWS Solutions Architect certification.
Exposure to ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, and IT Service Management processes.
Experience supporting managed services and SLA-driven environments.
Additional Information
Minimum 9 years of relevant experience in Go and AWS cloud development.
Total experience requirement: 18 years (9+9 model).
Go Programming Language and AWS Cloud are the mandatory primary skills.
Experience in Agile, DevOps, and cloud-native environments is preferred.
Participation in production support and on-call activities may be required.
Minimum 15 years of full-time education required.
15 years full time education
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com
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Skills Required
- Go programming language experience
- AWS cloud development experience
- Minimum 3 years of experience
- Minimum 9 years of relevant Go and AWS cloud development experience
- 18 years of total experience
- 15 years of full-time education
- RESTful and gRPC API development
- Go application development, concurrency, error handling, and Go modules
- Microservices architecture experience
- AWS services including Lambda, ECS, EKS, Fargate, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Kinesis, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and IAM
- Relational and NoSQL database experience
- Go testing, mocking, benchmarking, profiling, and race detection
- Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code
- Blue-Green and Canary deployment strategies
- Distributed application troubleshooting and production incident management
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- AWS CloudFormation
- OTT, streaming, broadcast, or digital media platform experience
- HLS, DASH, DRM, Widevine, PlayReady, and FairPlay knowledge
- CDN, SSAI, and video-on-demand knowledge
- AWS Elemental services experience
- Kafka, AWS Step Functions, Terraform, AWS CDK, Kubernetes, Redis, and Amazon ElastiCache
- Grafana, Datadog, Elastic Stack, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry
- AWS Developer Associate or AWS Solutions Architect certification
- ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, and ITSM process exposure
- Managed services and SLA-driven environment experience
Accenture Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Accenture and has not been reviewed or approved by Accenture.
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Healthcare Strength — Pay is considered competitive when paired with robust insurance options and other perks that compare well with large consulting and IT services peers. Multiple national medical plan options plus dental and vision are positioned as a core strength of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout feature through a 401(k) dollar-for-dollar match up to a set percentage after eligibility. The package is reinforced by additional financial programs such as savings tools and related resources.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and caregiving supports are presented as a meaningful benefit differentiator through substantial paid parental leave and multiple caregiver-oriented programs. Backup care and fertility/adoption/surrogacy navigation and reimbursements add breadth to family support beyond leave alone.
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What We Do
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 500,000+ people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
