Top Golang Jobs in Chicago, IL

Leads complex software optimization initiatives from design through implementation and validation. Builds cloud-native services, data pipelines, dashboards, automation, and AI-enabled forecasting solutions. Analyzes cloud costs, resource utilization, reliability, capacity, and engineering productivity while partnering with Engineering, Finance, Product, Data, Platform, and SRE teams. Ensures scalable and secure integrations, testing, observability, financial data quality, and measurable savings. Provides technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers without direct people-management responsibilities.

Build and lead full-stack software engineering initiatives using Go and other modern languages, distributed microservices, cloud platforms, databases, APIs, and containerization. Lead developers, establish engineering standards, mentor engineers, partner with product managers and architects, improve system performance, reduce technical debt, and influence technology strategy. The role requires delivering scalable cloud-based solutions in an Agile, collaborative environment.

Build and lead full-stack software engineering initiatives using cloud-based, distributed microservices and full-stack systems. Lead developers, define service boundaries and integration patterns, establish engineering standards, mentor team members, and deliver AWS solutions. Responsibilities include refactoring, reducing technical debt, improving performance, developing synchronous and asynchronous APIs, using modern programming languages and databases, and driving technical strategy across Agile teams.

Lead the architecture and delivery of GitLab’s data products, including near-real-time data ingestion, knowledge graph integrations, data marketplaces, observability, and data-sharing APIs. Translate ambiguous 0-to-1 initiatives into roadmaps, resolve cross-team dependencies, ensure operational readiness across deployment surfaces, and mentor engineers. The role requires deep full-stack expertise, technical leadership, and experience with AI-powered orchestration and multi-tenant SaaS systems.

Develop and scale cloud-based software platforms for advertising measurement, attribution, optimization, and privacy-preserving data collaboration. Build microservices, APIs, reporting tools, and real-time or batch processing solutions using Go and cloud-native technologies. Implement automated testing, monitoring, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and scalable data infrastructure. Collaborate with product, architecture, SRE, QA, compliance, and other cross-functional stakeholders while troubleshooting issues and contributing to technical decisions.

Build software, data pipelines, dashboards, and automation for cloud cost visibility, infrastructure efficiency, reliability, engineering productivity, and financial accountability. Analyze workloads and billing data, implement AI- and analytics-enabled forecasting and anomaly detection, develop cloud-native services, and support capacity planning, cost allocation, and optimization. Collaborate with Engineering, Finance, Data, Platform, SRE, Architecture, and Product teams while testing, troubleshooting, documenting, and communicating recommendations and business value.

Build, maintain, and deploy a high-volume, fault-tolerant observability platform. Architect and develop OpenTelemetry-based systems, implement services in Go (concurrency/gRPC), work with ClickHouse/Postgres, Kafka/Redis streaming, and containerized deployments on Kubernetes/Docker. Evaluate new tools and improve platform reliability and performance.

Design and implement infrastructure services for a GPU-as-a-Service platform. Build REST and gRPC APIs, bare-metal provisioning workflows, Kubernetes cluster automation, reconciliation loops, and durable asynchronous operations. Manage server enrollment, inspection, OS provisioning, cluster creation, hardware inventory interfaces, error handling, idempotency, and multi-tenant infrastructure reliability.

Design and maintain Golang backend services, APIs, microservices, automation tools, and Terraform infrastructure modules. Provision and manage cloud resources, troubleshoot application and deployment issues, and improve reliability and performance. Participate across the software development lifecycle, review code and infrastructure configurations, collaborate with technical teams, and communicate project risks. Use AI tools such as Claude, mentor colleagues, and contribute to client-focused technical solutions.

Design and build Go-based control-plane services, CSI drivers, storage integrations, observability tools, and infrastructure automation for Kubernetes AI platforms. Integrate enterprise and scale-out storage, support bare-metal and hybrid provisioning, and deliver declarative Terraform/OpenTofu and GitOps workflows. Architect reliable storage solutions for Kubernetes clusters, air-gapped environments, and sovereign infrastructure, including artifact mirrors and PKI/TLS.

Design, build, and optimize high-throughput, highly available backend services in Golang for 24/7 sports and prediction-market applications. Lead architecture decisions, implement features, diagnose and resolve high-concurrency bottlenecks, and provide high-tier operational support for real-time transactional systems.

The Golang Engineer designs, implements, and maintains software in Go, debugging issues, and collaborating on technical specifications while working in a remote, distributed environment.

Lead the backend team, setting technical direction for a scalable platform, designing distributed systems in Golang, and mentoring engineers.