Principal Software Engineer - GoLang

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>CIQ OVERVIEW</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CIQ builds the enterprise infrastructure that powers the world's most demanding workloads. From the operating system layer through AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, and cloud-native orchestration, CIQ delivers the speed, security, scalability, and sovereignty that major enterprises, government agencies, and research institutions depend on.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">CIQ is the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux and the developer of the RLC Pro family of Enterprise Linux distributions, Fuzzball workload orchestration, Warewulf Pro cluster provisioning, and Ascender Pro automation. Our customers include some of the largest and most technically sophisticated organizations in the world, working across HPC, AI/ML, defense, and regulated industries.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are a company of builders, operators, and open source practitioners. If you want to do work that matters, at a company that is genuinely changing how enterprise infrastructure gets built and run, we want to talk.</span></p></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>POSITION SUMMARY</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As a Principal Software Engineer - GoLang, you will work within the Engineering department to design, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">develop, and support enterprise solutions by contributing to the products and infrastructure for </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">CIQ. You will also maintain our systems' capacity and performance. You need to be able to </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">troubleshoot and improve applications and processes. You’ll analyze current code and industry </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">developments to design engineering solutions to solve problems and create seamless user </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">experiences. Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to:</span></p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Leading and participating in architecture-level discussions, planning, and</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">implementation.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Researching to ensure that what we are building is always the best path forward.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Documenting projects to share knowledge and facilitate integration for users.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Driving proof of concepts and minimal viable products for demonstration.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Supporting multiple services before they go live through activities such as system design </span>consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Improving products by collaborating with Engineering teams, Product teams, Sales teams, and open-source communities (as needed) on optimal and relevant solutions while sharing knowledge.</li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Designing and guiding solutions by filling the gap in ambiguous requirements.</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>NEEDED TO SUCCEED</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Successful candidates will have: </span></p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You will have an understanding of Linux and Cloud…