Lead Software Engineer - Go, GCC

Who is Litmus

Litmus is building the data foundation that powers industrial AI.

AI doesn’t work without real-world, contextualized data - Litmus makes that data usable. As AI adoption accelerates, most industrial environments still can’t access or use their operational data. We solve that gap.

We’re a growth-stage software company helping manufacturers access, structure, and use real-time data from machines, systems, and sensors at the edge. Our platform sits at the intersection of edge computing, AI, and industrial operations, enabling some of the world’s largest companies to run operations in real time, reduce downtime, and optimize production.

Backed by leading investors and trusted by global manufacturers and partners like Google, Microsoft, Dell, Oracle, and Mitsubishi, Litmus is powering the shift toward software-defined manufacturing.

Why join Litmus

Build the infrastructure that makes industrial AI possible

AI is moving beyond the cloud and into the physical world. At Litmus, you’ll build the infrastructure that enables real-time data to power AI and machine learning systems in production environments.

Work on problems where software meets the real world

Most AI systems fail without access to real-world data. You’ll build the layer that makes them viable in production. We solve challenges at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time data, and industrial constraints — where reliability, scale, and performance are non-negotiable.

Have real impact, fast

You’ll work on systems used by real customers in production, with direct impact on product and company trajectory. As a scaling company, we move quickly. You’ll have ownership, visibility, and the ability to shape both product and company as we scale.

Join a high-performance team

We’re building a team that holds a high bar and pushes each other to improve. You’ll work alongside experienced operators, engineers, and leaders who have done this before and are building again at scale. We hire people who take ownership, move quickly, and care about outcomes. No passengers.

Our culture

At Litmus, the team is collaborative, curious, and low ego. People are scrappy, take ownership, and look for ways to make an impact. We value empathy just as much as execution, whether that’s in how we build, how we communicate, or how we support each other.

We’re a growing company, so things move quickly and not everything is perfectly defined. If you enjoy figuring things out, working closely with others, and making steady progress, you’ll do well here.

About the Role

As the Lead Software Engineer - Golang, you will own the design, delivery, and production health of the Go services behind Litmus’s cloud and SaaS platform. You will lead a team of Go engineers building Kubernetes-based, high-performance distributed systems that ingest, process, and serve real-time industrial data at scale.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will write and review code every week, set the technical direction for your services, and be accountable for how they run in production for customers. The role is based in our Pune office and is fully in-office.

What You’ll Do

• Lead a team of Go engineers: plan work, break down features, mentor, and run code and design reviews

• Architect and build cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS services in Go that are scalable, secure, and observable

• Design high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems for real-time data ingestion, streaming, and processing

• Deploy and operate services on Kubernetes, including Helm charts, operators, autoscaling, rollout strategies, and resource tuning

• Own production reliability: define SLOs, lead incident response and root-cause analysis, and drive fixes to completion

• Profile and optimize Go services for CPU, memory, concurrency, and network performance

• Build and maintain gRPC and REST APIs, plus integrations with message brokers such as Kafka, NATS, or MQTT

• Establish engineering standards for testing, CI/CD, code quality, security, and documentation

• Partner with Product, QA, DevOps/SRE, and Edge teams to turn requirements into reliable releases

• Evaluate new technologies and drive improvements in architecture, tooling, and developer productivity

What You’ll Bring

Must Have

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

• 10–15 years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years building production systems in Go

• 3+ years leading engineers as a tech lead or lead developer, including mentoring and code review

• Proven experience building and running SaaS applications in production, including multi-tenancy, zero-downtime deployments, on-call ownership, and incident management

• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating high-performance distributed applications on Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS, or self-managed), including Helm, autoscaling, and resource tuning

• Deep knowledge of Go concurrency (goroutines, channels, context), memory management, and profiling with pprof and tracing tools

• Strong grasp of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency, partitioning, replication, fault tolerance, backpressure, and rate limiting

• Experience with gRPC/Protobuf, REST APIs, and messaging systems such as Kafka, NATS, or RabbitMQ

• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases (such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and time-series stores) and caching strategies

• Experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and structured logging

• Solid CI/CD and Git practices, and a strong testing culture (unit, integration, and load testing)

• Clear communication and the ability to work across Product, QA, and DevOps teams

Nice to Have

• Experience writing Kubernetes operators or controllers (controller-runtime, Kubebuilder)

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform, and GitOps tooling such as Argo CD or Flux

• Exposure to service meshes (Istio, Linkerd) and API gateways

• Familiarity with industrial or IIoT data, edge-to-cloud architectures, or protocols such as MQTT and OPC UA

• Experience with time-series data, stream processing, or data platform products

• Knowledge of SaaS security and compliance practices (SSO/OIDC, RBAC, SOC 2)

• Contributions to open-source Go or cloud-native projects

Litmus Automation is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We believe diverse perspectives lead to innovation.