Senior Golang Developer

About the Position

We are looking for an experienced Senior Golang Developer to help build and scale the services powering live event management, media processing, asset distribution, and hybrid edge-caching solutions. You will work on high-performance Go microservices, cloud-native architectures, and distributed systems that support mission-critical media workflows.

This role requires strong backend engineering fundamentals, hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, and event-driven architectures, and an interest in solving complex media and streaming challenges at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production Go microservices using gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and grpc-gateway
• Develop backend services that support live event lifecycle management and media workflow operations
• Enhance hybrid media-cache services that connect on-prem file systems with Google Cloud Storage
• Own features end to end from API design and protobuf schemas to deployment and operational support
• Build event-driven services with Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Workflows
• Integrate services with Google Cloud media APIs including Live Stream API, Transcoder API, Video Intelligence, and Vision AI
• Create unit, integration, load, and Critical User Journey tests to protect core workflows
• Improve observability, monitoring, and performance to raise system reliability
• Collaborate with DevOps on Kubernetes deployments, Helm, Terraform, Istio configuration, and GKE rollouts
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and on-call support for services you own

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend development experience, including 3+ years building production services in Go
• Strong expertise with Go concurrency patterns, context-aware programming, error handling, graceful shutdown, and service reliability
• Strong API design skills with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, grpc-gateway, and RESTful services
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and Google Cloud APIs for backend integrations
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals for service reliability and performance
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2) for collaboration and technical communication

Nice to Have

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience
• Familiarity with Google AIP API design conventions

We Offer

• Remote work options in Argentina and other locations
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and projects

About the Company

EPAM Systems is a global software engineering and product development company, delivering digital transformation and technology innovation to the world's leading companies.