GO, RESTful API, AWS, Terraform, Docker, PostgreSQL

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Job Title: Go API Developer

Position: Senior Software Engineer

Experience: 6 - 10 Years

Category: Software Development/ Engineering

Shift: General

Main location: Hyderabad

Position ID: J0726-1017

Employment Type: Full Time

Education Qualification: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or higher with minimum 6 years of relevant experience.

Position Description: We are seeking a Backend Software Engineer with strong experience in Go (Golang) to design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and cloud-native applications. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience building RESTful APIs, deploying applications on AWS, and working with modern DevOps tools and relational databases.

Your future duties and responsibilities

Design and implement custom OpenTelemetry processors and extensions in Go for specialized telemetry processing requirements

Build and maintain RESTful API proxy services with Swagger documentation to abstract OTEL SDK complexity from application teams

Architect high availability collector deployments using AWS ECS Fargate, Network Load Balancers, and auto scaling configurations

Implement advanced telemetry processing logic including sampling, filtering, enrichment, and routing strategies

Maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform) for collector clusters, networking, and security configurations

Optimize collector performance, memory usage, and throughput for enterprise scale telemetry volumes

Create comprehensive documentation and developer tooling to accelerate observability platform adoption

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

Must-Have Skills:

Expert level Go development for OTEL collector components, concurrent processing, and microservices

Deep understanding of collector pipelines, receiver/processor/exporter patterns, and OTLP specifications

RESTful service design, OpenAPI/Swagger documentation, authentication/authorization mechanisms

ECS Fargate, Network Load Balancers, Route 53, security groups, and container orchestration

Terraform expertise for cloud resource provisioning and configuration management

Docker, container optimization, multi stage builds, and security best practices

PostgreSQL connectivity, connection pooling, and telemetry data schema design

Good-to-Have Skills:

Experience with OTEL Collector Contrib components and community contribution

Knowledge of gRPC protocol implementation and performance optimization

Background in distributed systems design and microservices architecture patterns

Experience with CI/CD pipelines for collector builds and deployment automation

Understanding of enterprise security requirements for telemetry data handling and compliance frameworks

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