I learned Go "on the job" - I wrote a codebase during a company hackathon, and it ended up being shipped into production not long after. The good thing about Go

I learned Go "on the job" - I wrote a codebase during a company hackathon, and it ended up being shipped into production not long after. The good thing about Go is that the tooling and libraries quickly steer you towards using the language in a particular way, meaning that you learn how to write idiomatic Go quite quickly. In my case, my Golang code was reviewed by those with years of Go experience and they were surprised to find out that it was my first Go codebase. I suspect that most half-decent Golang shops will know this and be open to hiring an experienced C developer.