Team Lead Golang Engineer (Confidential Cloud Platform)

Job Title: Team Lead Golang Engineer (Confidential Cloud Platform)

Location: Warsaw, Poland (on-site only)

Type: Full-time, office-based/hybrid

We are looking for a hands-on Team Lead with strong Golang expertise to guide a team building a next-generation confidential cloud platform. This role combines deep technical work with leadership, decision-making, and driving engineering excellence in a highly complex, security-focused domain.

If you enjoy solving hard systems-level problems, mentoring engineers, shaping architecture, and owning delivery end-to-end, this position offers both impact and ownership.

About the Project

You will lead the development of a full-stack confidential cloud solution powered by OpenStack and modern confidential computing technologies (Intel TDX/SGX, AMD SEV).

The platform ensures workloads stay encrypted at rest, in transit, and even during execution -enabling true zero-trust computing for highly regulated industries.

Your leadership will shape:

• Core architecture decisions

• Backend and system services

• Security and attestation mechanisms

• Development workflows and engineering culture

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Ownership

• Lead a team of backend/system engineers: planning, mentoring, code quality oversight

• Drive architecture discussions, technical direction, and long-term engineering strategy

• Set coding standards, enforce best practices, and ensure secure-by-design development

• Collaborate closely with product, DevOps, and security teams to align priorities

  
  

Technical Responsibilities

• Design and develop Go microservices, system daemons, and REST/gRPC APIs

• Build and operate automation for deployment, monitoring, upgrades, and scaling

• Integrate with OpenStack components (Keystone, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance)

• Build observability and compliance layers (metrics, logs, tracing, attestation)

• Conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, and performance optimizations

• Write clean, secure, well-tested code (unit, integration, and security tests)

Required Experience

• Strong expertise in Golang (concurrency, performance, service design)

• Experience leading engineers: mentorship, code ownership, delivery management

• Practical experience with OpenStack services and APIs

• Solid knowledge of Linux, networking, routing, VLAN/VPC, security groups

• Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

• Familiarity with CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to drive a team toward technical clarity

Nice to Have

• Experience with Horizon or Skyline dashboards

• Knowledge of confidential computing, TEEs, attestation, TPM/vTPM

• Experience with Python (OpenStack ecosystem) or Rust

• Understanding of observability standards (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry)