Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CIQ builds the enterprise infrastructure that powers the world's most demanding workloads. As a Principal Software Engineer - GoLang, you will design, develop, and support enterprise solutions while maintaining system capacity and performance, troubleshooting applications, and creating seamless user experiences.
Responsibilities
- Leading and participating in architecture-level discussions, planning, and implementation
- Researching to ensure that what we are building is always the best path forward
- Documenting projects to share knowledge and facilitate integration for users
- Driving proof of concepts and minimal viable products for demonstration
- Supporting multiple services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews
- Improving products by collaborating with Engineering teams, Product teams, Sales teams, and open-source communities (as needed) on optimal and relevant solutions while sharing knowledge
- Designing and guiding solutions by filling the gap in ambiguous requirements
Skills
- Understanding of Linux and Cloud infrastructure
- Extensive experience with GoLang, Pulumi, Kubernetes, and other tools/technologies within engineering
- Ability to pivot to new challenges in a fast-paced startup environment
- Expertise in deriving solutions from high-level or incomplete requirements
- Strong problem-solving skills and an eagerness to learn
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a remote team environment
- A friendly, collaborative, humble, honest, and always striving-to-be-better attitude
- Flexibility to support an on-call rotation
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar field
- At least 10 years of experience writing software in Go, Python, Scala, etc
- Demonstrated mastery of Linux and cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- High-performance or scientific computing experience is a plus
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Employee stock options.
- Remote work; no travel required for most positions.
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