Backend GoLang Developer

Senior Go (Golang) Backend Developer — 7+ Years Location : San Francisco, CA — Onsite Employment Type : Full‑time About the Role We’re hiring a Senior Go Backend Developer to design and scale cloud‑native microservices for a high‑throughput SaaS platform. You’ll drive architecture, reliability, and performance for services that handle large volumes of events and data in real time. What You’ll Do Design, build, and operate production‑grade Go microservices and APIs (REST / gRPC) with strong testing and observability. Scale distributed systems via sharding, partitioning, horizontal scale, caching, and back‑pressure patterns. Integrate with Kafka (streams / queues), Cassandra / NoSQL, Elasticsearch, and relational stores where appropriate. Own performance & resilience : load / capacity testing, SLIs / SLOs, tracing, metrics, and alerting. Automate CI / CD, IaC, containerization, blue / green or canary deployments. Collaborate with product, SRE, security, and data teams; write clear design docs and lead peer reviews. Mentor engineers and help elevate coding standards and developer experience. Basic Qualifications Bachelor’s in CS or equivalent depth in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems. 7+ years in backend engineering for service‑oriented / microservices architectures. Expert‑level Go (Golang) : modules, profiling / pprof, race detector, benchmarking, concurrency primitives. Proficiency with at least one of : Java, Scala, Kotlin, Python, Node.js. Hands‑on with Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch (or comparable tech at production scale). Proven ability to scale systems (circuit breaking, retries, idempotency, rate limiting, partitioning). Strong experience on AWS, GCP, or OCI (networking, IAM, managed services, cost / perf tradeoffs). Deep understanding of multithreading / concurrency / parallelism and failure modes in distributed systems. Proficient with Git workflows and CI / CD (Jenkins, Argo, GitHub Actions, etc.); strong testing culture. Preferred / Bonus Domain exposure to cybersecurity or intelligence platforms. Observability : Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite, OpenTelemetry (traces / metrics / logs). Kubernetes (prod), Helm, Argo Rollouts; service mesh (Istio / Linkerd). Open‑source contributions (GitHub, Stack Overflow, blogging, talks). How We Work (SF) Hybrid : typically Tue–Thu onsite in SoMa / Financial District (adjustable by team). Pragmatic engineering, strong code health, RFC / design docs, and rapid but responsible delivery. Ownership mindset—you ship services and steward their reliability in production. Pay and Benefits Pay Range Minimum : $ 118,000 per year Pay Range Maximum : $ 180,000 perYear HCLTech is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, sex, color, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical disability or genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state, and / or local law. Should any applicant have concerns about discrimination in the hiring process, they should provide a detailed report of those concerns to secure@hcltech.com for investigation. A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies. In addition, this role is eligible for the following benefits subject to company policies : medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and disability insurance; employee assistance program; 401(k) retirement plan; 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year); and 10 paid holidays per year How You’ll Grow At HCLTech, we offer continuous opportunities for you to find your spark and grow with us. We want you to be happy and satisfied with your role and to really learn what type of work sparks your brilliance the best. Throughout your time with us, we offer transparent communication with senior-level employees, learning and career development programs at every level, and opportunities to experiment in different roles or even pivot industries. We believe that you should be in control of your career with unlimited opportunities to find the role that fits you best