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

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Go Software Engineer to support Crowd Strikes 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.

• 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 Crowd Strikes 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.

• 8+ years of backend development experience.
• 5+ years building microservices for SaaS products.
• Expert-level knowledge of Go (Golang).
• 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.

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