-
Seer

Golang Engineer - Contract

Seer
United Kingdom · Contract · Entry

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

  • 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.

Required Skills & Experience

  • 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.

Nice-to-Have Skills

  • 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.

Key Skills

Ranked by relevance

grafana prometheus golang infrastructure as code terraform docker cloud loki cicd aws gcp
Login to Apply
Posted
Sep 18, 2025
Type
Contract
Level
Entry
Location
London
Company
Seer

Industries

Staffing Recruiting

Categories

Engineering Information Technology

Related Jobs

3 roles aligned with this opportunity

View all jobs
View Job Details
Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing
Related

Software Engineer - Go (Golang) (m/f/d)

2026-06-19

Full-time
Not Applicable
United Arab Emirates
Staffing
Engineering
View Job Details
Seer
Related

AI Engineer

2025-09-18

Full-time
Entry
United Kingdom
Staffing
Engineering
View Job Details
Seer
Related

AI Engineer

2025-09-04

Full-time
Entry
United Kingdom
Staffing
Engineering