Senior Golang Developer at Improving · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 4 - 10 years · ₹10L - ₹35L / yr · Raised funding · Posted 28 Sep 2026

Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior Golang Developer with deep expertise in Kubernetes controllers and operators to join our Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering team. You will design, develop, and maintain robust Kubernetes-native applications and custom operators that power our clients' containerized infrastructure. You should have 4+ years of professional Golang experience with demonstrated proficiency building production-grade Kubernetes controllers and operators.
Key Responsibilities
Design and develop custom Kubernetes controllers and operators to extend platform functionality
Write clean, efficient, maintainable Golang code following industry best practices and design patterns
Implement and manage Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) for Kubernetes platforms
Develop API clients and libraries for Kubernetes resource management
Collaborate with DevOps and Platform teams to integrate operators into production environments
Implement comprehensive unit and integration testing strategies for controller logic
Troubleshoot and debug complex issues in Kubernetes environments
Contribute to architectural decisions and technical documentation
Mentor junior developers and participate in code reviews
Required Qualifications
4+ years of professional experience developing applications in Golang
2+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining Kubernetes controllers and/or operators (e.g., using Kubebuilder, Operator SDK, or controller-runtime)
Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, APIs, and resource management
Proficiency with Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and API conventions
Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, container registries)
Solid understanding of concurrent programming and goroutines
Experience with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipelines
Demonstrated ability to write unit tests and integration tests

About Improving
About
Improving is a leading IT professional services firm committed to helping companies achieve lasting success through modern technology. With core expertise in AI, Data, and Applications, we specialize in transforming legacy systems, building cloud-native platforms, and delivering intelligent, future-ready solutions for today’s complex business needs. Improving’s leaders are equally committed to fostering a great place to work that is inclusive and purpose-centered, empowering Improvers to bring their whole selves to work. Our team is known for its collaborative approach and long-term partnerships that prioritize measurable outcomes. By combining technical excellence with strategic insight, Improving enables all stakeholders to grow, adapt, and lead in an ever-evolving digital landscape.
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Role: Golang Developer
Experience: 4+Years
Work Location: Mumbai(Kanjurmarg)
Notice Period: Immediate
Required Skills
- Golang: 4+years hands-on experience building production services.
- API Protocols: REST/JSON, gRPC, protobuf; API versioning and backward compatibility.
- Architecture: Clean Architecture, DDD (aggregates, repositories), SOLID, hexagonal architecture.
- Databases: PostgreSQL/MySQL; indexing, query optimization, transactions, isolation levels, migrations (e.g., golang-migrate).
Nice-to-Have
- Event-driven systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ), CQRS and Saga patterns.
- Concurrency: Goroutines, channels, sync primitives (mutex, wait groups), context cancellation, worker pools.
- Containers & Cloud: Docker, Kubernetes; familiarity with AWS/GCP/Azure (IAM, networking, managed DBs).
- CI/CD & Git: Branching strategies, automated tests, code quality checks, artifacts.
- Caching (Redis/Memcached), rate limiting, and feature flags.
- Security: OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, mTLS, secrets management (Vault/SSM).
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Helm charts.
- Experience with performance tooling.
Education
· Bachelor’s in Computer Science/Engineering
Golang Developer
Experience: 6-8 years
Employment Type: Contractual(2 months), Full-time
Desired Skill: Golang, GRPC, RestAPIs, AWS
Work Mode: Pune, India
Availability: Immediate Joiners
This is the contractual opportunity on a full time basis.
Must have skills:
● 6+years of Software Development experience
● 5+years of GoLang programming; Prefers additional proficiency in either Java or Python
● Knowledgeable in writing REST APIs
● Comfortable programming in production grade systems
● Experience with building HTTP based services
● Strong background of optimizing performance
● Familiarity with event-driven systems
● Experience dealing with highly concurrent, distributed architectures/systems.
Good to have skills:
- Exposure to relational databases
- Experience with Cloud Providers such as AWS is an advantage; cloud privileged access (CIEM, IAM roles, ephemeral credentials)
- Experience using Terraform to manage infrastructure as code would be an advantage
- Hands-on experience building or extending Privileged Access Management (PAM) capabilities — credential vaulting, secrets management, password rotation, just-in-time / time-bound privileged access
- Working knowledge of privileged session management and session recording — session proxying/brokering, keystroke and video capture, session replay, live monitoring and termination, tamper-evident audit trails
- Familiarity with remote access protocols and gateways — SSH, RDP, HTTPS/web-based sessions; protocol proxying and man-in-the-middle session interception
Technical Skills -
- 4–6 years of experience in Golang development, backend engineering, or automation testing.
- Strong hands-on proficiency in Golang and backend development concepts.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
- Experience developing automation frameworks, unit tests, integration tests, and API validation tools using Go.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, system design, and cloud-native architecture.
- Experience in validating backend services, REST/gRPC APIs, and Kubernetes-based platforms.
- Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions.
- Knowledge of cloud-native observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to contribute to backend development, reliability improvements, and performance validation.
Key Responsibilities -
- Develop automation frameworks, unit tests, integration tests, and validation tools using Golang.
- Validate backend services, distributed systems, REST/gRPC APIs, and Kubernetes-based platforms.
- Contribute to backend development, debugging, reliability improvements, and performance validation.
- Work with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Automate workflows and testing through CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins/GitHub Actions.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve system quality, observability, and test coverage.
Good to Have -
- Experience with infrastructure platforms or storage systems.
- Exposure to AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with performance, load, or resiliency testing.
- Familiarity with Ginkgo, Gomega, or similar Go testing frameworks.
We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to take ownership of production infrastructure, cloud environments, Kubernetes platforms, and infrastructure automation. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges and is comfortable being responsible for systems in production.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and operate production infrastructure, including participating in an on-call rotation and responding to production incidents.
- Design, operate, and continuously improve Kubernetes clusters in production.
- Manage and automate infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, primarily with Terraform.
- Build, maintain, and optimise cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Work extensively with Linux, including system administration, networking, troubleshooting, and system-level configuration.
- Manage production deployment and GitOps workflows using ArgoCD.
- Improve infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, monitoring, and operational efficiency.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive problems through to resolution.
- Develop automation and processes that reduce manual operational work.
Essential Requirements
- 4+ years of hands-on experience operating production infrastructure, with personal ownership and responsibility for live systems, including on-call experience.
- Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience — you must have operated and managed Kubernetes clusters, rather than simply deploying applications onto clusters managed by another team.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, with Terraform strongly preferred. Experience with Pulumi or CloudFormation is also considered.
- Strong experience with at least one major cloud platform, ideally AWS. Strong GCP or Azure experience is also welcome, provided you are willing to work with AWS.
- Strong Linux skills and confidence working from the command line, including networking, troubleshooting, system configuration, and performance issues.
- Production experience with ArgoCD and GitOps-based deployment workflows.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with the ability to take ownership of production incidents and infrastructure issues.
Nice to Have
Experience with email infrastructure would be a strong advantage, particularly:
- Exim
- IMAP / SMTP
- Postfix
- Dovecot
- General mail server administration and maintenance
We are hiring a Golang Developer to build fast, reliable and highly concurrent backend services at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services in Go
- Develop REST services with Gin and internal APIs with gRPC and Protocol Buffers
- Write efficient concurrent code using goroutines and channels
- Improve service latency, throughput and reliability
- Write unit and integration tests for all services
- Take part in design discussions and code reviews
Requirements
- 1+ years of professional Golang experience
- Hands-on experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers
- Strong understanding of concurrency in Go
- Experience with the Gin framework or similar
- Familiarity with Git, Docker and Linux
We are looking for a Golang Developer to help build and scale our platform. This role involves designing high-performance distributed systems, building robust APIs and contributing to systems that handle real-time workflows at scale. You will own problems end to end, working closely with product, engineering and platform teams to build solutions that are reliable and scalable.
Responsibilities
- Develop new and enhance existing microservices, libraries, and features that form our B2B KYC platform.
- Create and document APIs, Queue Contracts to be consumed by other services.
- Work closely with the Product and Engineering Leads to implement features following best design principles and patterns.
- Participate in all phases of the development cycle plan, design, implement, review, test, deploy, document, and training.
- Help junior developers with best practices like TDD etc. and make sure their code meets the standards.
- Educate them continuously to improve overall team performance and work quality.
Requirements
- Development experience (3 to 6 years) preferably on GoLang and scripting skills.
- Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, software design principles, algorithms & design patterns.
- Interest and ability to quickly learn and ramp up on new languages and technologies.
- Ability to write understandable, reliable and testable code with minimum supervision.
- Distributed, highly available systems running at large scale.
- Distributed platforms which use Kafka, Elasticsearch, Cassandra or similar systems.
- Cloud environments (e. g., Docker, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes etc.,).
- Asynchronous programming patterns (e. g., GO Routines/Channels, Async Programming).
- Experience in CI/CD (Continuous Integration & Delivery), AGILE work environments.
- Ability to troubleshoot and solve issues on distributed systems.
Why join Zoop
- Work on high-scale, real-time systems that power critical identity and onboarding workflows for fast-growing businesses
- Take end-to-end ownership of meaningful engineering problems while building clean, scalable, production-grade systems
- Grow in a strong engineering environment with exposure to distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, and modern architectures
Work Mode: In office (5 days a week)
Location: Viman Nagar, Pune
We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low-latency, distributed systems with RESTful services. You will be responsible for developing new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.
Responsibilities—
- Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, and maintainable code.
- Solving complex technical problems.
- Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code.
- Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards.
- Participating in and driving code reviews.
- Building robust, secure, and scalable microservices.
- Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.
- Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible for implementing relational, document, key, object, or graph data stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed.
- Tracking defects and work with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog
- Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure.
- Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions.
- Architecting & designing the platform.
- Mentoring junior engineers helping them grow, performing code reviews, system monitoring & delegation.
- Writing documentation & create engineering processes.
- Working as an individual contributor.
- Helping drive KPIs with Product.
- Taking ownership of backend systems.
- Helping with unit tests & QA process.
- Scaling the engineering team.
- System scaling to hundreds of millions of users.
- Working with product managers and designs.
Requirements—
- Overall 5-10 years of experience in software development with a strong base in Golang/Java/Python and a degree in Computer Science(optional).
- Experience with Go, K8, Docker, AWS, and CI/CD.
- Experience with micro web frameworks – like Springboot, Gin/Mux.
- Experience in working with microservice architectures, Transactional systems, and Distributed environments.
- Exposure to building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance, and metrics (with something like Hystrix).
- Experience with MySQL, and NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
- Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel, ActiveMQ.
- DevOps experience.
- Experience with AWS stack.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal to no guidance in a fluid environment.
- To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
- To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements scope and priorities.
- To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments.
- To have led or mentored an engineering team before(optional).
- To have contributed to open-source projects.
- To have a strong drive & desire for continued growth.
- Proficiency in English.
- Experience with Web3(optional).
Benefits—
- Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly.
- Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners.
- Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development.
- High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients.
About us—
Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.
Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.
Build production-grade cloud infrastructure that powers enterprise applications with cutting-edge DevOps practices.
What you'll do:
- Design CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
- Containerize apps with Docker, deploy on Kubernetes clusters
- Manage infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Set up monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack)
- Cloud migrations (AWS EC2, EKS, RDS → GCP equivalent)
- Optimize costs and performance for live production systems
What we need:
- Basic Python/Bash scripting
- Docker basics, Git workflows
- Cloud exposure (AWS/GCP/Azure free tier projects)
- Problem-solving mindset, eagerness to learn
Real impact:
- Deploy apps used by 1000+ daily users
- Work with senior DevOps engineers on client deliverables
- Build portfolio for FAANG-level interviews
We are looking for an experienced Developer with experience in compiled languages and ready to work in Golang. You will be responsible for the Development of distributed services GUI and terminal application in Golang. Candidates should have strong understanding of Algorithms, Memory Management and Networking
Required Experience & Skills:
- C/C++/C#/Go/Rust.
- Networking, Database, Linux, Docker.
- Multiprocessing, Multithreading, Distributed computing, Thread synchronization techniques.
- Communication protocols, gRPC, MQTT, REST, Modbus, OPC...
- GUI Programming
- Testing, Debugging and performance optimization.
- REST APIs, MySQL, Redis
- Proficiency with Git for version control and collaborative development workflows.
About the team
SecurITe’s mission is to build an Agentic‑AI driven security platform that protects critical infrastructure from modern cyber threats. Our focus is on delivering highly performant, resilient, and intelligent network security systems that help defenders stay ahead of adversaries.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Golang Engineer to spearhead the development of our next-generation cybersecurity AI platform. In this role, you will build and scale robust backend systems to solve complex, high-impact technical challenges.
Why This Role Matters
Cybersecurity is undergoing a fundamental shift. AI is no longer an enhancement—it’s becoming the core engine of how detection, investigation, and response are executed. As our Golang Engineer, you will architect and build the backend systems that make this transformation real. Your work will influence not only the evolution of our platform, but also how an entire industry adapts to and leverages AI‑driven security. This is a chance to solve novel technical challenges while shaping how defenders outpace modern attackers.
What You’ll Do
● Design and develop scalable backend services and REST APIs using Golang.
● Architect and maintain microservices-based systems.
● Perform rigorous debugging and system performance optimization.
● Integrate services with Opensearch, Elasticsearch, and Sumo APIs.
● Manage and optimize data interactions with SQL databases.
Impact You’ll Have
● Build the foundational infrastructure that enables real-time AI-driven threat detection.
● Ensure the reliability and performance of critical security systems under high-load scenarios.
● Directly contribute to the resilience of global critical infrastructure by shipping secure and efficient code.
Required Experience
● 4-8+ years of experience in Golang and REST APIs
● Extensive experience in professional backend software development.
● Proven track record of designing and deploying distributed systems at scale.
● Demonstrated experience optimizing performance for data-intensive applications.
● Proven experience leading or architecting large-scale distributed systems and driving technical strategy.
Required Skills & Qualifications
● Expertise in Golang development.
● Deep experience building Backend/REST APIs.
● Proficiency in Python.
● Strong understanding of Microservice architecture.
● Experience with SQL databases.
● Experience with Opensearch, Elasticsearch, or Sumo APIs.
● Strong capabilities in debugging and performance optimization.
Nice to Have
● Knowledge of Identity, Authentication, and Authorization protocols (OAuth, SAML, JWT).
● Experience working in Linux environments.
The Mindset
● Problem Solver: You thrive on complex, ambiguous challenges and engineer elegant solutions.
● Ownership‑Driven: You take initiative, move fast, and deliver outcomes without hand‑holding.
● Continuous Learner: You stay ahead of the curve in AI, ML, and emerging technologies.
● Startup DNA: You excel in fast‑moving environments where priorities evolve and impact is immediate.






