What are the responsibilities and job description for the Golang Engineer with Kafka USC and GC position at Ampstek?
Title: Golang Engineer with Kafka
Location: Los Angeles CA Initially Remote
Job Type: Contract
JD-:
Mandatory Skills : Golang
Job Description
Design build and maintain backend services for the Stargazer automation platform
Treat Reliability as a Feature owning error budgets relentlessly hunting down errors and shielding the system from antipatterns or designs that conceal problems instead of surfacing them
Ensure errors are tracked instrumentation is up to date and fully integrated with our inhouse incident management system
Champion sound system engineering practices while collaborating closely with stakeholders and product managers
Contribute to scaling a high throughput automation platform powering streaming pipelines
What Were Looking For
Hands-on production experience with
Golang primary language
Java
GraphQL APIs
MongoDB Redis
CQRS architecture and Kafka
SRE mindset proven ability to implement and enforce error budgets observability and resilience at scale
Familiarity with Kubernetes cloud variants GKE OCI and ArgoCD
Experience with ELK stack for observability
Exposure to NoSQL systems like ScyllaDB or MongoDB beyond primary expertise
Strong communication skills for working across engineering product and operations
Bonus Skills
Experience with Ray Serve or other LLM serving frameworks
Contributions to streaming pipelines and automation workflows