Senior Go Engineer
Brightfield
WorldwideremotePosted 2 months ago
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Key highlights
- Senior Go Engineer role on Core Services team building backend services for TDX platform
- 8+ years experience required, including 5+ years with Go production services
- Fully remote position with flexible work environment
- Opportunity to mentor engineers and raise technical bar across organization
- AI-assisted software development practice contribution
- Experience with Snowflake, MySQL, Redis, and gRPC production experience required
Role overview
Brightfield is a workforce analytics company that uses AI-powered platform TDX (Talent Data Exchange) to help large organizations manage their extended workforce. The company has over $575B in real-world workforce spend data from 139 countries and is trusted by the Global 2000. They are seeking a Senior Go Engineer for their Core Services team, which builds the backend services powering the TDX platform. This is a hands-on role focused on designing, building, and operating Go services that power core APIs and data access paths, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability as traffic and data grow. The team is fully remote, values flexibility and ownership, and seeks data-driven innovators.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate Go services that power TDX's core APIs and data access paths across HTTP and gRPC.
- Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of the services you build, including how they perform as traffic and data volumes grow.
- Build durable asynchronous processing for data-intensive workloads using queues and streams, with a focus on delivery semantics, idempotency, retries, and failure recovery.
- Enhance and extend our observability capabilities in Datadog, including structured logging, metrics, tracing, and health signals.
- Build and maintain shared Go packages and service patterns that other engineering teams depend on, with thoughtful versioning, documentation, and backward compatibility.
- Debug and resolve production issues and participate in on-call responsibilities for the services your team owns.
- Contribute to code reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering best practices across the team.
- Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar across the organization.
- Contribute to our evolving best practices for AI-assisted software development, including identifying where these tools are effective and ensuring their output is appropriately reviewed and verified.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 5+ years building and operating production services in Go.
- Strong proficiency in Go concurrency, with experience using concurrency patterns to scale real-world workloads, including sizing worker pools and bounding parallelism.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and designing for partial failure, including timeouts, retries with backoff and jitter, graceful degradation, and idempotency.
- Experience building horizontally scalable services behind auto-scaling infrastructure, with an understanding of instance lifecycle, fast startup, and graceful shutdown.
- A performance-oriented mindset, with experience measuring latency and throughput in production and using profiling and distributed traces to identify bottlenecks.
- Strong SQL and relational database skills, including the ability to read query plans and reason about database performance as data volumes grow.
- 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 comfort working in a terminal, writing shell scripts, and diagnosing running services.
- Experience building service-to-service interfaces using gRPC and Protocol Buffers, with an understanding of backward compatibility across versions.
- Proficiency with message queues and streaming platforms.
- Production experience with Snowflake, MySQL, and Redis.
- Ability to read and reason about Java services and work effectively across service boundaries.
- Experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code in daily development, with the ability to discuss specific work you've shipped using these tools and how you verified the resulting code.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
Nice to have
- Experience in procurement, contingent workforce, or workforce technology.
Additional details
- Equal Opportunity Employer statement: Brightfield celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.
- Languages: Go, SQL, Java, Shell
- Technology: RESTful Web Services, gRPC, Docker, AWS
- Data: MySQL, Snowflake, Redis
- Messaging: Queues and streams
- Tools: Git, Make, Jenkins, Claude Code, Datadog
- About Brightfield: Founded in 2006, pioneer in workforce analytics with AI-powered platform TDX (Talent Data Exchange), $575B in real-world workforce spend data from 139 countries, trusted by the Global 2000
- Work environment: Fully remote team of data-driven innovators, problem solvers, and industry experts who value flexibility, ownership, and continuous learning