Senior Golang Developer

EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. We are committed to having a positive impact on our customers, our employees, and our communities. We embrace a dynamic and inclusive culture. Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to a myriad of innovative projects that deliver the most creative and cutting-edge solutions, and have an opportunity to continuously learn and grow. No matter where you are located, you will join a dedicated, creative, and diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potential.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Golang Developer to help build and scale the services powering live event management, media processing, asset distribution, and hybrid edge-caching solutions. You will work on high-performance Go microservices, cloud-native architectures, and distributed systems that support mission-critical media workflows.

This role requires strong backend engineering fundamentals, hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, and event-driven architectures, and an interest in solving complex media and streaming challenges at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production Go microservices using gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and grpc-gateway
• Develop backend services that support live event lifecycle management and media workflow operations
• Enhance hybrid media-cache services that connect on-prem file systems with Google Cloud Storage
• Own features end to end from API design and protobuf schemas to deployment and operational support
• Build event-driven services with Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Workflows
• Integrate services with Google Cloud media APIs including Live Stream API, Transcoder API, Video Intelligence, and Vision AI
• Create unit, integration, load, and Critical User Journey tests to protect core workflows
• Improve observability, monitoring, and performance to raise system reliability
• Collaborate with DevOps on Kubernetes deployments, Helm, Terraform, Istio configuration, and GKE rollouts
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and on-call support for services you own

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend development experience, including 3+ years building production services in Go
• Strong expertise with Go concurrency patterns, context-aware programming, error handling, graceful shutdown, and service reliability
• Strong API design skills with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, grpc-gateway, and RESTful services
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and Google Cloud APIs for backend integrations
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals for service reliability and performance
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2) for collaboration and technical communication

Nice to have

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience
• Familiarity with Google AIP API design conventions

We offer

• International projects with top brands
• Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
• Healthcare benefits
• Employee financial programs
• Paid time off and sick leave
• Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
• Global career opportunities
• Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
• EPAM Employee Groups
• Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn

EPAM is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.