GoLang Developer
Summary
This role involves maintaining and modernizing large-scale Go open-source package ecosystems by managing version upgrades, resolving dependency conflicts, and ensuring build stability. The engineer will work hands-on with Go modules, CI/CD pipelines, and upstream contributions to ensure application compatibility.
Location: Edison, NJ / Frisco, TX / Hartford, CT / Bellevue, WA / San Jose CA (Day 1 Onsite)
We are seeking an experienced Go (Golang) Open-Source Software Engineer to drive the modernization and maintenance of large-scale third-party package ecosystems. The engineer will be responsible for performing version upgrades of open-source Go packages, resolving dependency conflicts, fixing code breaks introduced by package updates, and ensuring successful validation through build, test, and presubmit pipelines.
The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in Go modules, dependency management, build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and OSS package maintenance. This role requires hands-on engineering ownership across package migration, compatibility remediation, Copybara workflows, build/test stabilization, local patch management, and upstream contribution activities.
Key Responsibilities
Open-Source Package Upgrade Management
- Perform version upgrades of Go open-source packages across large codebases.
- Analyze package dependencies and transitive dependency chains.
- Assess compatibility impact of package upgrades on consuming applications.
- Drive package modernization and retirement of obsolete dependencies.
- Manage end-to-end package migration activities.
Dependency Analysis & Remediation
- Investigate dependency conflicts and version incompatibilities.
- Resolve issues arising from indirect and nested dependencies.
- Analyze API deprecations and breaking changes introduced by package upgrades.
- Create remediation plans for application and library compatibility issues.
- Troubleshoot and resolve code breaks resulting from package version migrations.
- Modify Go applications and libraries to align with updated package APIs.
- Perform root cause analysis of runtime, functional, and integration failures.
- Develop and maintain fixes for OSS-related defects.
- Contribute improvements and fixes to upstream open-source projects where appropriate.