Senior GoLang Back-End Engineer for UAV project (USA) in MPS Development

Our client isateam ofthinkers, makers, and collaborators bound together byour commitment toinspire drone technology leadership.They build drone technology and deliver drone flight services tohelp our customers succeed. Their goal istorevolutionize the business ecosystem byconnecting drone technology tocommunities around the globe.Recognized asaninnovative leader, our client transforms organizations with drone delivery and drone technology solutions. They develop SaaS platforms having patented mobile app technology available atthe Apple App and Google Play Stores. With technology-driven customers, together they inspire the future ofdrone services, providing intelligent access toairspace, automation innovation, streamlined process management, operational efficiency, and acommitment tosafety.Headquartered inthe USA, our client was founded in2016, and quickly moved from anAmerican small business start-up toaglobal leader, receiving asignificant investment from one ofthe biggest enterprises inthe world.Position SummaryOur client isseeking seeking aSenior Software Engineer (non-manager) who will beresponsible for designing, developing, maintaining, and continuously improving and supporting both internal and customer-facing APIgateways, the way they authenticate, authorize, bill and throttle the incoming calls, the tooling making those APIs self-service, aswell asthe instrumentation, observability and scalability ofour APIs. Additionally, the engineer will broadly support, architect, and drive internal core shared services. The ideal candidate isastrong polyglot software developer with experience inusing cloud infrastructure tosupport software engineering projects. Senior engineers are also expected tomentor, grow and pair with other software engineers. Some ofour principles inSoftware Engineering are: high collaboration, ownership ofcode and related CI/CD and cloud components through production, abias towards automation, and emotional intelligence.Responsibilities:Architect, develop, test, and deploy sophisticated solutions inyour team’s software domainDemonstrate ownership ofcode and adjacent tooling, including pipelines and cloud infrastructureMentor other engineers todrive strong engineering practicesCollaborate within your team onaligning your software and architecture toproduct goalsProvide technical collaboration inthe evaluation, conceptualization, design, and development ofmajor new technical capabilities.Contribute torelevant Architectural Design Records (ADRs)Architecture and engineering inaGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP) environmentParticipate ingiving feedback toothers and via peer reviews/ pair programming/ code reviewsWork broadly across DroneUp todrive the technical capabilities and excellence ofyour team’s software domainAssist indefending, hardening and ensure scalability ofDroneUp public APIsUse ofTest Driven and Behavior Driven Development through designing, development, and debugging unit and integration testsPractice continuous improvement across all job areas and personally/ professionallyContinuously practice DevSecOps around vulnerability management and mitigationUse Open Telemetry and true observability and knowing the difference between itand monitoring and logging, and the practice ofusing tracing todebug atall points ofthe SDLCGrow the engineering culture towards ahigh-performing teamOther duties asassignedQualifications:Bachelor’s degree inComputer Science, Computer Engineering orrelated field or5+years experience asasoftware engineerExperience inUnix/ Linux/ DockerUnderstanding ofservice oriented architectures/ microservice architecturesProficiency inGolangKnowledge ofand experience inacloud native environment (weuse GCP)Experienced inusing git intrunk-based development modelsExperience inuse offeature flagging todecouple release from deployment isaplusExperience using Open Telemetry for observability aswell asother monitoring tools such asdatadogBasic understanding ofnetworking and routing principlesExperience indocker applications and orchestrating them with kubernetes Familiarity with security configuration for web/api services (SSL, Access control)Experience with JIRA orother work tracking systems. Ability toresolve tickets according topriority order and collaborate with the Technical Product Manager toadjust prioritiesFamiliarity with using anend-to-end CI/CD pipeline using various tools with artifact storageFamiliarity with use ofMacOS asadesktop and predominantly CLI interfacesExperience ina“product mindset” byunderstanding stakeholder needs, priorities and business valueOur tooling stack includes but isnot limited toCircleCIGitHubGCPVulnerability ManagementKubernetes (via GKE)Secrets ManagementFeature FlaggingTerraform Cloud