Software Engineer Golang - DevOps Tooling

The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in building developer infrastructure and automation tools rather than just application features. You will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of developer-facing products, from empathetic customer discovery to architectural design and implementation.

Additional Information: This position is 100% onsite. Candidates must be comfortable working daily from Our Client's designated facility.

This position pays between $65 - 70 /HR

Advantages
Strategic Impact: By creating CLI tools and CI/CD pipelines, you directly improve the daily lives of other developers, making your work highly visible and mission-critical.

Technical Mastery: You will gain deep, hands-on experience with a "multi-cloud" stack (Azure and GCP) and complex integrations that are highly valued in the current market.

Career Longevity: Expertise in developer experience (DevEx) and infrastructure is remarkably stable, as these functions are essential to any modern enterprise's survival.

Responsibilities
Customer Engagement: Partner with users to understand use-cases and pain points, advocating for user-centric software solutions.

Engineering & Development: Design and implement functionalities for Golang-based command-line tools and automation services.

Architecture: Create high-level designs outlining structure, components, and interfaces to ensure seamless system integration.

Quality Assurance: Develop unit, integration, and end-to-end tests with a "test-to-break" mindset to ensure resilient, fault-tolerant software.

Technical Documentation: Write clear technical specifications for new features and architectural improvements.

Process Optimization: Contribute to CI/CD pipeline enhancements, toolchain upgrades, and Agile ceremonies to foster a culture of continuous improvement.

Technical Core Competencies
Golang Expertise: Deep production experience in Golang, specifically for CLI, API, and DevOps-related work.

Full-Stack & API Integration: Strong understanding of RESTful and gRPC APIs, microservices architectures, and event-driven systems.

Database Design: Proficiency in SQL, including advanced query writing, stored procedures, and performance optimization for scalable relational databases.

DevOps & Cloud: Proven track record of creating integrations with Azure, GCP, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions.

Systems Thinking: Ability to look beyond individual features to understand how code interacts with the broader infrastructure and embedded systems.

Qualifications
Required Experience & Qualifications
Total Experience: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.

Specialized Experience: 5+ years of production-level Golang development.

Technical Depth: A strong background in hands-on engineering (this is not a management-only or pure architect role).

Infrastructure Focus: Demonstrated success in building developer tooling and automation pipelines.

DevOps Background: 7+ years of experience in DevOps or a similar infrastructure-heavy software role.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with embedded systems build and development processes.

Prior experience in technical team leadership.

Familiarity with data modeling for high-performance, large-scale applications.

Summary
Become the architect of efficiency for Our Client in this high-impact, senior-level engineering role. Moving beyond simple feature development, you will serve as a technical force multiplier, designing the high-performance Golang CLI tools and DevOps pipelines that empower an entire engineering organization. This is a hands-on opportunity to solve complex architectural puzzles, integrating seamlessly with Azure, GCP, and GitHub Actions to build resilient, "test-to-break" developer infrastructure.

With over 8 years of experience, you’ll act as a visionary leader, blending systems thinking with empathetic customer discovery to bridge the gap between complex backend integration and user-centric automation. If you are a senior expert with 5+ years of production Go experience and a passion for cloud-native scalability, this onsite role offers the autonomy to define the toolchain of the future. Transform the developer experience and drive continuous innovation within a world-class technical ecosystem.

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.

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