Remote Go Backend Engineer – Cloud & Distributed Systems

Bright Vision Technologies; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Go Application Engineer to design and build high-performance backend services, tooling, and cloud-native apps. The role emphasizes latency-sensitive, scalable systems and collaboration across product, design, engineering, operations, and business teams.

You will mentor junior engineers, participate in reviews, and contribute to production-grade code. A strong Go mastery and experience with Kubernetes ecosystems are essential for success.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time in Go.
• Strong understanding of Go concurrency patterns (goroutines, channels, contexts).
• Hands-on experience building production gRPC and/or REST APIs in Go.
• Experience with Kubernetes-native development (client-go, controller-runtime).
• Solid experience with relational and key-value data stores.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and container-based deployment.
• Excellent debugging and performance‑engineering skills.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance backend services, infrastructure tooling, and cloud-native applications using Go.
• Work on systems where latency, concurrency, and operational efficiency are first-class concerns.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners — product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders — to translate ambiguous requirements into well-engineered solutions.
• Raise the bar through code review, design review, and mentorship of more junior engineers.
• Deliver meaningful work that holds up in production.

Skills

Go

Go concurrency

gRPC

REST APIs

Kubernetes

Databases

Networking

CI/CD

Debugging

Documentation

Tools

Kubernetes client-go

controller-runtime

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Go Application Engineer to design and build high-performance backend services, tooling, and cloud-native apps. The role emphasizes latency-sensitive, scalable systems and collaboration across product, design, engineering, operations, and business teams.

You will mentor junior engineers, participate in reviews, and contribute to production-grade code. A strong Go mastery and experience with Kubernetes ecosystems are essential for success.