Senior Go Engineer

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🕒 August 19

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Brightfield

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Logistics • Healthcare

Brightfield is a leading provider of extended workforce market intelligence, utilizing its AI platform, TDX, to help global businesses identify and realize savings opportunities in contingent workforce spending. By automating time-consuming tasks and enabling insightful SOW analysis, Brightfield empowers organizations to negotiate supplier contracts with greater certainty and achieve significant ROI across various industries, including healthcare, technology, and financial services.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate Go services powering TDX core APIs and data access paths across HTTP and gRPC • Own service reliability, performance, and scalability as traffic and data volumes grow • Build durable asynchronous processing for data-intensive workloads using queues and streams • Enhance Datadog observability through structured logging, metrics, tracing, and health signals • Build and maintain shared Go packages and service patterns with versioning, documentation, and backward compatibility • Debug and resolve production issues and participate in on-call responsibilities • Contribute to code reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering best practices • Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization • Contribute to best practices for AI-assisted software development and review and verify tool output

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 5+ years building and operating production services in Go • Strong proficiency in Go concurrency, including sizing worker pools and bounding parallelism • Strong understanding of distributed systems, partial failure, timeouts, retries with backoff and jitter, graceful degradation, and idempotency • Experience building horizontally scalable services behind auto-scaling infrastructure • Experience measuring production latency and throughput and using profiling and distributed traces • Strong SQL and relational database skills, including reading query plans and reasoning about database performance • Experience designing and operating multi-tenant systems with appropriate tenant isolation • Experience supporting production systems through on-call, debugging, testing, code review, and technical design • Deep Unix/Linux experience, including terminal use, shell scripting, and diagnosing running services • Experience building service-to-service interfaces using gRPC and Protocol Buffers • Proficiency with message queues and streaming platforms • Production experience with Snowflake, MySQL, and Redis • Ability to read and reason about Java services and work across service boundaries • Experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code in daily development, including verifying resulting code • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work • Flexible work environment • Ownership and continuous learning opportunities • Inclusive work environment