**This is a contract opportunity through December, 31, 2025 with possibility of extension.**

Our client within the Tech Industry is looking for a contractor to help advance the Go ecosystem within the client's rServer. This team is a new team with a dedicated mission of accelerating the pace of software development and strengthening security and compliance within the rServer. This role involves working with the team to make foundational investments in libraries, packages, and tools within Go Lang. This candidate 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.

Job description and responsibilities:

• The contractor will be responsible for helping advance the Go ecosystem within the client's rServer.
• They will drive a broad variety of projects such as periodically upgrading rServer to latest Go SDK/runtime, building tooling for integrating and updating third party Go lang libraries into rServer, upgrading foundational first party and third party Go lang libraries, enhancing tooling for debugging and IDE integration, supporting linters and static analysis tools, integrating Go lang tooling with dependency management software, improving documentation and best practices to support Go developer journey, and adoption state of art profiling and performance optimization techniques.
• The contractor will collaborate closely with full time employees within the team, Build Toolchains, and other infrastructure and platform teams.
• They will be responsible for providing business hours support for all things Go lang.

Job Requirements:

• This role requires an expert software programmer with 8+ years of industry experience and proficiency in Go lang.
• The ideal candidate would additionally have experience with building large scale software using Bazel, experience writing and patching library code, and experience in C/C++.
• Experience with profiling and performance optimization and operating systems internals is a strong plus.