Golang Architect

**Position Title: Golang Architect** **Location: Menlo Park, CA \- Remote** **Duration: Contract** **Visa: US ,GC ,H4Ead , TN.** **Job Description** Principal Golang Architect Location: Menlo Park, CA Duration: 12 Month Contract Visa: Independent Visa excluding OPT **POSITION OVERVIEW:** We are looking for a highly specialized Principal Cloud\-Native Architect with strong hands\-on expertise in Golang, Kubernetes, AWS, EKS(Elastic Kubernetes Service), and distributed systems. Please submit candidates who have built and architected enterprise\-scale cloud\-native platforms—not candidates with only application deployment or basic Kubernetes administration experience. **MUST\-HAVE SKILLS:** ‣ 12\+ years overall software/IT experience. ‣ Strong hands\-on Golang/Go development and Architecture. ‣ Strong experience with Docker, Helm, CI/CD, GitOps and infrastructure automation. ‣ Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or enterprise observability. ‣ Agentic AI, RAG, MCP/LLM integration with cloud\-native platforms is Required. ‣ Expert\-level Kubernetes engineering. ‣ Hands\-on Kubernetes Operators, Controllers, CRDs, Kubebuilder, Controller\-Runtime/Operator SDK. ‣ Strong AWS / EKS architecture experience. ‣ Enterprise distributed systems and microservices architecture. ‣ Experience with Kubernetes multi\-cluster / federation is highly preferred. ‣ Strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, high availability and production troubleshooting. ‣ Istio/Envoy, Kafka, Terraform, ArgoCD are strongly preferred. **Pre\-Screening Questions** Q1: Does the candidate have strong hands\-on experience developing and architecting enterprise\-scale applications/platforms using Golang (Go), Kubernetes, and cloud\-native technologies, rather than only application deployment or basic Kubernetes administration? Q2: Does the candidate have hands\-on expert\-level Kubernetes engineering experience, including Operators, Controllers, CRDs, Kubebuilder, Controller\-Runtime, or Operator SDK? Q3: Does the candidate have hands\-on experience architecting AWS/EKS\-based enterprise distributed systems and microservices, including scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, high availability, and production troubleshooting? Q4: Does the candidate have hands\-on experience integrating Agentic AI, RAG, MCP, or LLM\-based capabilities with cloud\-native platforms or distributed systems? Pay: $45\.00 \- $50\.00 per hour Work Location: Remote