Success case · Staff augmentation

Eight Go Developers for NetApp Platform Engineering

Embedding senior Golang engineers into a high-scale environment where latency, reliability, and clear interfaces between services are non-negotiable.

NetApp is a global leader in intelligent data infrastructure—helping organizations store, manage, and protect data across hybrid multicloud environments. This engagement focused on augmenting platform teams building and operating services that sit behind that mission.

The challenge

Platform engineering needed to scale delivery of REST and gRPC services, background workers, and integration layers—without pausing roadmap commitments. Hiring eight senior Go engineers locally on short timelines was unrealistic; leadership wanted a partner who could match Go staff augmentation depth with enterprise-grade collaboration.

We structured the engagement around explicit SLOs, shared code review standards, and overlap with US time zones so augmented engineers could pair with staff engineers, participate in design reviews, and own vertical slices of the backlog.

Engagement snapshot

  • 8 senior Go developers (staff augmentation)
  • Stack: Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana, CI/CD
  • Focus: APIs, event-driven workers, observability hooks
  • Model: Embedded squads with client tech leads

Go remains a strong fit for cloud-native services; we align implementation choices with Effective Go and the official Go documentation.

What we delivered

  • Hardened service boundaries and consistent error-handling patterns across new Go microservices.
  • Load-tested critical paths and reduced tail latency on high-volume read APIs.
  • Expanded automated test coverage for concurrent code paths and integration suites in CI.
  • Documented runbooks and dashboards so on-call rotations could trace incidents faster.

The team operated as an extension of existing engineering—not a black box. Engineers joined sprint ceremonies, adopted internal style guides, and contributed to shared libraries. Where a dedicated pod with its own delivery lead is a better fit, we also support that through our Hire Go development team offering.

“The eight engineers plugged into our rhythm quickly—clear PRs, strong ownership of production issues, and they actually read our architecture docs before proposing changes.”

Director of Engineering, platform organization

Outcome & why it mattered

By front-loading senior Go capacity, the program accelerated delivery of customer-facing and internal platform capabilities while keeping operational risk in check. The work reinforced patterns—observability, graceful degradation, and API contracts—that matter for any organization building resilient data and control planes, consistent with how NetApp positions hybrid cloud and intelligent data services globally.

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Last updated: February 2026