Senior Data Engineer; Golang

Position Overview

Senior Staff Data Engineer (Golang). The role is a full‑time W2 hourly position, for a 2‑year project with a partner organization (disclosed during interview). Remote in the USA. Pay $60‑$95 per hour (DOE) plus Launch Code benefits. This is not a direct role with Launch Code; it is a position through Launch Code. We are unable to sponsor work visas for this role.

• Drive system design discussions and software development within our engineering teams.
• Promote software design best practices.
• Author code to contribute new features, evolve existing features, and fix defects.
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define and refine solution requirements.
• Provide thought leadership and be a trusted technical advisor to the business.
• Communicate technical principles, solutions, and recommendations with business stakeholders, product managers, and other technical leaders.
• Review code contributions from team members to provide constructive and actionable feedback.
• Collaborate with Principal Engineers and other engineering teams across the organization to ensure a cohesive and coherent architecture.
• Work with leadership and team to prospect for and evaluate impactful, purpose‑fit technology to introduce to our problem‑solving toolbelts.
• Mentor engineers and aid their journey to become passionate experts in outstanding software.

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in computer science, management information systems, or a related discipline.
• Author high‑quality Golang code to deliver new features, evolve existing services, and resolve defects.
• Familiarity with API design principles (REST, gRPC) and API gateway technologies.
• Demonstrated experience with programming languages such as Python or Go.
• Deep knowledge and experience with Google Kubernetes Engine and Google Cloud Platform.
• Knowledge of key architectural patterns, such as microservices and event‑driven architecture, with a deep understanding of their trade‑offs.
• Knowledge of best practices for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
• Familiarity with data architecture and modeling concepts and paradigms.
• Familiarity with observability concepts such as Service Level Objectives and Service Level Indicators, and related tooling (Datadog, Open Telemetry, etc.).
• Experience as a productive code reviewer, with an ability to coach others on style and correctness.
• Experience with relational databases and declarative query languages such as SQL (Oracle, Postgres, etc.).
• Experience with Git version control and related tools such as Git Hub or Git Lab.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform, etc.).
• Familiarity with publish/subscribe models and supporting technologies (Apache Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, AWS SNS/SQS, etc.).
• Proven experience in designing, building, and running large‑scale systems.

• At least 7 years of demonstrated experience with programming languages such as Python or Go.
• Demonstrated experience migrating Python codebases to Go.
• Strong understanding of cloud‑native security best practices.
• Strong understanding of Dev Ops best practices.
• Direct experience implementing service meshes (e.g., Istio) in Kubernetes environments.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and concepts with direct experience deploying software using the Kubernetes control plane.
• A demonstrated understanding of Machine Learning and Generative AI concepts.
• Knowledge of the agricultural domain.