Go Backend Engineer — Cloud-Native, High-Performance (Remote)

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Go Application Engineer to design and build high-performance backend services and cloud-native applications using Go. The role emphasizes latency, concurrency, and engineering discipline, with collaboration across product, design, and operations.

You will mentor junior engineers, participate in code reviews, and raise the bar with robust, production-ready code. This is a remote U.S. opportunity for a full-time direct W2 role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software experience in Go.
• Strong Go concurrency with goroutines, channels, contexts.
• Hands-on experience building production gRPC and REST APIs in Go.
• Kubernetes-native development using client-go/controller-runtime.
• Relational and key-value data stores expertise.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and networking.
• CI/CD pipelines and container deployments experience.
• Excellent debugging and performance engineering skills.
• Strong communication and documentation abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance backend services and cloud-native apps in Go.
• Work on latency- and concurrency-focused systems with scalable architectures.
• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, operations; mentor juniors.
• Participate in code reviews and design reviews to improve quality.

Skills

Go

Concurrency

gRPC/REST APIs

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Debugging

Tools

client-go

controller-runtime

Docker

gRPC tooling

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Go Application Engineer to design and build high-performance backend services and cloud-native applications using Go. The role emphasizes latency, concurrency, and engineering discipline, with collaboration across product, design, and operations.

You will mentor junior engineers, participate in code reviews, and raise the bar with robust, production-ready code. This is a remote U.S. opportunity for a full-time direct W2 role.