Senior Golang Developer

We are looking for an experienced Senior Golang Developer to help build and scale the services powering live event management, media processing, asset distribution, and hybrid edge-caching solutions. You will work on high-performance Go microservices, cloud-native architectures, and distributed systems that support mission-critical media workflows.

This role requires strong backend engineering fundamentals, hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, and event-driven architectures, and an interest in solving complex media and streaming challenges at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production Go microservices using gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and grpc-gateway
• Develop backend services that support live event lifecycle management and media workflow operations
• Enhance hybrid media-cache services that connect on-prem file systems with Google Cloud Storage
• Own features end to end from API design and protobuf schemas to deployment and operational support
• Build event-driven services with Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Workflows
• Integrate services with Google Cloud media APIs including Live Stream API, Transcoder API, Video Intelligence, and Vision AI
• Create unit, integration, load, and Critical User Journey tests to protect core workflows
• Improve observability, monitoring, and performance to raise system reliability
• Collaborate with DevOps on Kubernetes deployments, Helm, Terraform, Istio configuration, and GKE rollouts
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and on-call support for services you own

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend development experience, including 3+ years building production services in Go
• Strong expertise with Go concurrency patterns, context-aware programming, error handling, graceful shutdown, and service reliability
• Strong API design skills with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, grpc-gateway, and RESTful services
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and Google Cloud APIs for backend integrations
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals for service reliability and performance
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2) for collaboration and technical communication

Nice to have

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience
• Familiarity with Google AIP API design conventions

We offer

• International projects with top brands
• Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
• Healthcare benefits
• Employee financial programs
• Paid time off and sick leave
• Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
• Global career opportunities
• Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
• EPAM Employee Groups
• Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn