Senior Go Backend Engineer

SourceFuse Technology hiring Senior Go Backend Engineer with 6-8 years of experience.

Overview:

You will build the execution layer of our telecom-grade data platform, responsible for:

Kafka based ingestion

Data normalization

Windowed aggregation

KPI computation

Time-series storage

High-scale streaming processing

Experience

6–8 years overall

2+ years in Go

Strong distributed systems exposure

Responsibilities:

Build high-performance Kafka consumers/producers in Go

Implement windowed aggregation and state handling

Implement retry and DLQ strategies

Ensure idempotent writes to TSDB

Build adapters for DB/API/SFTP ingestion

Implement dynamic config via CRD watcher patterns

Write production-grade code following secure coding practices with profiling and optimization

Must-Have Skills:

Strong knowledge and experience with Go concurrency (goroutines, channels, sync patterns)

Kafka integration (high throughput systems)

Docker + Kubernetes

REST/gRPC services in Go

Observability instrumentation

Secure coding practices

Performance profiling and optimization

Preferred

Experience in streaming systems

Experience with time-series data

Experience in telecom or large-scale monitoring platforms

Familiarity with telecom network data semantics

Nice to Have:

Node.js + TypeScript experience or knowledge

API design (OpenAPI-first preferred)

Microservices architecture

Experience in event-driven architectures

Experience in platform or SaaS control planes

What NOT to Hire

Avoid:

CRUD-only backend engineers

Node-only engineers with no distributed systems exposure

Go engineers without Kafka or K8s experience

Data engineers who only know Spark/Hadoop

DevOps-only engineers with no system design depth

Shift - (US time zone overlap)