Principal Engineer (Golang)

Velotio Technologies is a product engineering company working with innovative startups and enterprises. We are a certified Great Place to Work® and recognized as one of the best companies to work for in India. We have provided full-stack product development for 325+ startups across the globe building products in the cloud-native, data engineering, B2B SaaS, IoT Machine Learning space. Our team of 400+ elite software engineers solves hard technical problems while transforming customer ideas into successful products.

We are seeking a talented Principal Software Engineer to help build next generation highspeed-data observability and orchestration pipeline framework while being responsible for prototyping, designing, developing and supporting a highly scalable SaaS based product and to create dynamic applications using Generative AI.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience as a hands-on engineer developing SaaS-based software products and solutions.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience with GoLang in designing and developing scalable software solutions.
• Proven track record of architecting and delivering event-driven, distributed systems and microservices.
• Advanced proficiency in GoLang, including object-oriented design, development, testing, and profiling.
• Experience in other programming languages, such as Java or Python, is a plus.
• Expertise in building and scaling SaaS platforms using RESTful APIs and messaging middleware like Kafka, JMS, or NATS.
• In-depth knowledge of in-memory caching solutions like Redis or Memcached.
• Strong understanding of real-time and event-driven architectures.
• Expertise in cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and experience in designing secure, scalable, and cost-efficient architectures.
• Hands-on experience with RDBMS systems such as MySQL. Knowledge of NoSQL databases and distributed storage systems is desirable.
• Strong understanding of web application security principles, including secure coding practices, vulnerability mitigation, and compliance with industry standards.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Expertise in solving complex technical challenges and making critical software architecture decisions.
• Proven ability to design scalable, high-performance, and reliable SaaS systems.
• Experience in performance tuning, caching strategies, load balancing, and creating self-healing systems.
• Strong focus on optimizing system reliability and scalability.
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams, mentoring developers, and fostering a culture of technical excellence. Strong stakeholder management skills, including working with product managers, AI specialists, and external partners.
• A strong understanding of product lifecycle management, tools, and processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and Lead the Data Highway Platform: Design and develop scalable, high-performance, and reliable architectures for the Data Highway platform, processing millions of events per second using Go and Java.
• Architect And AI Initiatives: Architect and develop components that leverage AI to drive intelligence and automation within the Data Highway. Build AI-powered applications that enable dynamic insights, observability, and orchestration for large-scale data systems.
• Technical Leadership and Mentorship.
• Platform Optimization: Continuously monitor and improve platform performance, ensuring high availability and reliability of the Data Highway.
• Security and Compliance: Implement robust security measures, ensuring data integrity, confidentiality, and compliance with industry standards. Lead the effort in identifying vulnerabilities and implementing solutions for secure and efficient data flow across distributed systems.
• Innovation and Research: Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies in the fields of AI, data engineering, and distributed systems, and apply them. Drive RD efforts to identify cutting-edge solutions that can be incorporated into the platform to maintain competitive advantage.

Benefits

Our Culture:

• We have an autonomous and empowered work culture encouraging individuals to take ownership and grow quickly.
• Flat hierarchy with fast decision making and a startup-oriented “get things done” culture.
• A strong, fun positive environment with regular celebrations of our success. We pride ourselves in creating an inclusive, diverse authentic environment.

We want to hire smart, curious, and ambitious folks, so please reach out even if you do not have all of the requisite experience. We are looking for engineers with the potential to grow!

At Velotio, we embrace diversity. Inclusion is a priority for us, and we are eager to foster an environment where everyone feels valued. We welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.

Originally posted on Himalayas