Protobuf Cleanup Engineer

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Requirements:

• Proven experience working with Protocol Buffers in production Go/gRPC environments.
• Strong proficiency in Golang, including experience with code generation, interfaces, and concurrency patterns.
• Familiarity with GoGoProto and its ecosystem is strongly preferred.
• Experience working in large, production-critical codebases within service-oriented architectures.
• Ability to work independently, proactively solve problems, and communicate effectively across distributed teams.
• Comfort navigating infrastructure-level projects with broad cross-functional impact.

Responsibilities:

• Audit and identify all current usages of GoGoProto extensions in protobuf definitions.
• Migrate .proto files to use standard protobuf options, removing deprecated or custom GoGoProto constructs.
• Regenerate protobuf code using modern, supported tools (e.g., protoc, protoc-gen-go), ensuring compatibility with the client’s Go/gRPC infrastructure.
• Refactor Go-based services to account for changes in code generation, particularly where GoGoProto-specific behaviors were in use (e.g., custom JSON serialization, field annotations).
• Validate code changes through testing and integration with live-tier services.
• Collaborate with internal engineering teams to align on changes, unblock development workflows, and avoid regressions.
• Document migration steps, tooling processes, and best practices to support long-term maintainability and knowledge sharing.