Lead Golang Developer, Litmus GCC

Overview

Lead the team of Go engineers who own the design, delivery and production health of the Go services behind Litmus's cloud and SaaS platform. This is a hands-on leadership role that includes writing and reviewing code every week.

What you'll do

• Lead a team of Go engineers: plan work, break down features, mentor, and run code and design reviews
• Architect and build cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS services in Go that are scalable, secure, and observable
• Design high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems for real-time data ingestion, streaming, and processing
• Deploy and operate services on Kubernetes, including Helm charts, operators, autoscaling, rollout strategies, and resource tuning
• Own production reliability: define SLOs, lead incident response and root-cause analysis, and drive fixes to completion
• Profile and optimize Go services for CPU, memory, concurrency, and network performance
• Build and maintain gRPC and REST APIs, plus integrations with message brokers such as Kafka, NATS, or MQTT
• Establish engineering standards for testing, CI/CD, code quality, security, and documentation
• Partner with Product, QA, DevOps/SRE, and Edge teams to turn requirements into reliable releases
• Evaluate new technologies and drive improvements in architecture, tooling, and developer productivity

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 10–15 years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years building production systems in Go
• 3+ years leading engineers as a tech lead or lead developer, including mentoring and code review
• Proven experience building and running SaaS applications in production, including multi-tenancy, zero-downtime deployments, on-call ownership, and incident management
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating high-performance distributed applications on Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS, or self-managed), including Helm, autoscaling, and resource tuning
• Deep knowledge of Go concurrency (goroutines, channels, context), memory management, and profiling with pprof and tracing tools
• Strong grasp of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency, partitioning, replication, fault tolerance, backpressure, and rate limiting
• Experience with gRPC/Protobuf, REST APIs, and messaging systems such as Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ
• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases (such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and time-series stores) and caching strategies
• Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and structured logging
• Solid CI/CD and Git practices, and a strong testing culture (unit, integration, and load testing)
• Clear communication and the ability to work across Product, QA, and DevOps teams

Nice to have

• Experience writing Kubernetes operators or controllers (controller-runtime, Kubebuilder)
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform, and GitOps tooling such as Argo CD or Flux
• Exposure to service meshes (Istio, Linkerd) and API gateways
• Familiarity with industrial or IIoT data, edge-to-cloud architectures, or protocols such as MQTT and OPC UA
• Experience with time-series data, stream processing, or data platform products
• Knowledge of SaaS security and compliance practices (SSO/OIDC, RBAC, SOC 2)
• Contributions to open-source Go or cloud-native projects

Details

• Location: Pune office, India
• Work mode: fully in-office