Golang / Go Job: Golang Developer-Cloud Storage

Golang Developer-Cloud Storage at Western Digital

🇺🇸 United States › California › Mountain View   (Posted Jan 28 2016)

About the company
WD, a Western Digital company, is a long-time innovator and storage industry leader. As a storage technology pacesetter, the company produces reliable, high-performance hard disk drives and solid state drives. These drives are deployed by OEMs and integrators in desktop and mobile computers, enterprise computing systems, embedded systems and consumer electronics applications, as well as by the company in providing its own storage products. WD’s leading storage devices and systems, networking products, media players and software solutions empower people around the world to easily save, store, protect, share and experience their content on multiple devices. WD was established in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, Calif. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.wd.com.

Job position
Permanent

Job description
At Western Digital, we are creating a personal cloud experience that ties all of your content together - pictures, music, video, etc., and making it available on any screen, at any place and any time. We are revolutionizing the way people enjoy and experience content.

We are currently looking for a talented Software Engineer with experience developing RESTful APIs and Open SDKs for middleware, mobile-clients and media-centric applications. Our ideal candidate is a highly-motivated creative thinker with a passion for solving complex engineering problems and building robust software components. We are looking for energetic team-players who want to contribute to enabling MyCloud for millions of customers.

Key responsibilities for this role will include:

Design and implement high performance, scalable and high quality middleware components for the WD MyCloud range of storage devices for mobile access
Improve functionality, performance, and reliability of existing code
Provide input on the design and contribute to the development of new platform and API features

Skills & requirements
Excellent OOD principles including in-depth knowledge of design-patterns, namespaces, and pluggable architectures
Experience in developing REST APIs, Open SDKs and/or Web Services
Strong hands-on experience with at least two of the following languages: PHP, Python, Go (Golang), C, C++, Java
If not already familiar with Go, you must be willing and able to learn Go and become quickly proficient in the language
In-depth experience of relational database programming with SQLite/MySQL (NoSQlLexperience with Mongo, CoucbDB or similar experience is a plus)
In-depth knowledge of Linux system-level APIs, including shell-scripting experience
Experience developing with Docker framework is a plus
Experience with Agile development processes (Scrum, Kanban)
Experience developing embedded software for devices such as Network Attached Storage or set-top boxes highly desirable
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering and 8+ years related industry experience or MS and 6+ years

Apply now!