Golang Specialist

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KPI is looking for a Golang Specialist to join one of our clients, a high-tech SaaS company.

Repo Rangers is a new team with a dedicated mission of accelerating the pace of software development and strengthening security and compliance in our client’s server monorepo. The team will make foundational investments in libraries, packages, and tools for the two largest languages at Dropbox (viz. Py and Go). They will help develop deep expertise, bring cutting‑edge tools, establish best practices, and provide hands‑on guidance and support to platform and product teams across the company.

Remote – anywhere in the U.S. (working EMEA business hours; prepared to take an evening meeting with U.S. folks once or twice per week). Client location:
San Francisco, CA.

6‑month contract.

$65/hr to $74/hr.

No C2C resumes are considered.

• Responsible for helping advance the Go ecosystem in Dropbox’s rServer monorepo.
• Drive a broad variety of projects such as periodically upgrading rServer to the latest Go SDK/runtime, building tooling for integrating and updating third‑party Go lang libraries into rServer.
• Upgrade foundational first‑party and third‑party Go lang libraries, enhancing tooling for debugging and IDE integration, supporting linters and static analysis tools.
• Integrate Go lang tooling with dependency management software.
• Improve documentation and best practices to support the Go developer journey and the adoption of state‑of‑the‑art profiling and performance optimization techniques.
• Collaborate closely with full‑time employees in Repo Rangers, Build Tool chains, and other infrastructure and platform teams.
• Provide business hours support for all things GoLang.

• An expert software programmer with 8+ years of industry experience and proficiency in the Go language.
• Experience with building large‑scale software using Bazel.
• Experience in writing and patching library code, as well as proficiency in C/C++.
• Experience with profiling, performance optimization, and operating systems internals is a strong plus.
• Top 3 skills
  :
  Go expertise (at least 5+ years experience), building libraries, tools, compilers, packages, etc. using Go coding.
• The best pool of candidates this team is looking for would be somebody who has experience building infrastructure, not end‑user‑facing applications.

Thank you!

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