Top Golang Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Senior Software Engineer responsible for developing and maintaining web applications and microservices (React, Golang). Mentor team members, lead code reviews, influence technical decisions, improve CI/CD and testing strategies (unit, E2E, performance), collaborate across teams on integrations, and promote engineering best practices and documentation.

The Golang Engineer designs, implements, and maintains software in Go, debugging issues, and collaborating on technical specifications while working in a remote, distributed environment.

Design, build, and scale distributed backend services supporting hundreds of thousands of users. Develop efficient Golang and Python code, optimize infrastructure, make architectural decisions, conduct code reviews, and collaborate with frontend and mobile engineers. The role also involves technical planning, platform innovation, and contributing to product evolution in an autonomous startup environment.

Leads a distributed, cross-functional engineering team; establishes development, testing, and deployment practices; partners with leadership and product on roadmaps and prioritization; coaches, evaluates, and develops engineers; supports hiring, performance management, culture building, and delivery of reliable, high-quality systems.

Design, develop, and maintain production-scale APIs and distributed systems in Golang on Kubernetes. Provide technical leadership, participate in design reviews, write tests and documentation, collaborate cross-functionally, improve developer workflows including AI-assisted tooling, and support on-call operations.

Build, maintain, and deploy a high-volume, fault-tolerant observability platform. Architect and develop OpenTelemetry-based systems, implement services in Go (concurrency/gRPC), work with ClickHouse/Postgres, Kafka/Redis streaming, and containerized deployments on Kubernetes/Docker. Evaluate new tools and improve platform reliability and performance.

Design and build Go-based control-plane services, CSI drivers, and tooling for high-performance storage integrated with Kubernetes AI and compute workloads. Develop declarative Terraform/OpenTofu and GitOps automation, telemetry, and observability systems. Support bare-metal, hybrid, air-gapped, and sovereign deployments using Kubernetes, Cluster API, Harbor, and PKI/TLS. Integrate enterprise and scale-out storage platforms while addressing throughput, latency, reliability, consistency, and scaling.

Design and build scalable distributed backend systems in Golang using PostgreSQL and Redis. Architect highly available services across microservices, networking, and cloud platforms; prototype and productionize platform capabilities and internal tooling; collaborate with CTO leadership on strategic initiatives; and influence engineering standards. The role focuses on greenfield AI infrastructure, developer tooling, performance, reliability, and systems operating at scale.

Design, build, and optimize high-throughput, highly available backend services in Golang for 24/7 sports and prediction-market applications. Lead architecture decisions, implement features, diagnose and resolve high-concurrency bottlenecks, and provide high-tier operational support for real-time transactional systems.

The Back End Engineer will develop and maintain backend services and REST APIs for Healthcare.gov tools, ensuring performance, reliability and security while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Develop and maintain data aggregation/transformation systems, automated trading solutions, and service APIs. Implement concurrent Go services, handle network/file streams, work with SQL/NoSQL/datastores, write unit tests and mocks, design for high-load real-time data processing, and contribute to architecture and open-source initiatives.

Senior Go developer to build data aggregation and transformation systems, automated trading solutions, and service APIs. Design and implement highly loaded, fault-tolerant distributed systems using concurrency, synchronization, unit testing and mocking, performance metrics and tuning. Work with network/file streams, SQL/NoSQL and key-value stores, message brokers, and containerized deployments.

Develop and maintain data aggregation/transformation systems, automated trading solutions, and service APIs in Go. Implement concurrency, unit tests, network/file streams, and work with SQL/NoSQL databases and storage algorithms.

Lead design, development, and support of enterprise infrastructure and services. Drive architecture discussions, prototypes, capacity planning, and system launches. Troubleshoot performance, collaborate across teams and open-source communities, document solutions, and support on-call rotations to ensure reliable, scalable cloud and Linux-based systems.

Lead the backend team, setting technical direction for a scalable platform, designing distributed systems in Golang, and mentoring engineers.

Lead the design of Xsolla's identity platform, develop Golang microservices for user management, and implement security protocols for compliance.

The Senior Software Engineer will modernize USPS shipping technology, refactor legacy systems for cloud integration, and develop high-performance services using Go, while collaborating with teams and addressing production challenges.