Golang Engineer - Contract
SeerUnited Kingdom7 days ago
ContractEngineering, Information Technology
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About The Role
We are looking for a Freelance Golang Engineer with strong expertise in monitoring and observability systems, specifically Grafana. This role involves building, extending, and integrating backend services written in Go, with a particular focus on metrics, logging, and dashboards. You’ll be responsible for ensuring system reliability and helping us get real-time insights into performance through Grafana and related observability tools.
Key Responsibilities
We are looking for a Freelance Golang Engineer with strong expertise in monitoring and observability systems, specifically Grafana. This role involves building, extending, and integrating backend services written in Go, with a particular focus on metrics, logging, and dashboards. You’ll be responsible for ensuring system reliability and helping us get real-time insights into performance through Grafana and related observability tools.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain backend services and tooling in Go (Golang).
- Design and implement metrics collection pipelines, exporters, and integrations for Grafana.
- Build and maintain Grafana dashboards to monitor system health, performance, and KPIs.
- Work with time-series databases such as Prometheus, InfluxDB, or Loki.
- Collaborate with DevOps/infra teams to ensure robust monitoring and alerting across distributed systems.
- Optimize logging and tracing for scalability and observability.
- Provide recommendations for monitoring best practices and alerting strategies.
- Strong proficiency in Golang (production-level experience).
- Hands-on experience with Grafana (dashboard design, integrations, alerting).
- Familiarity with Prometheus (custom exporters, metrics instrumentation).
- Experience with logging/tracing tools (Loki, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry).
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and microservices.
- Comfortable working independently as a freelancer/contractor with minimal supervision.
- Experience with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
- Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Experience writing technical documentation and runbooks.
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