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About the role
Brightfield is seeking a Senior Go Engineer to join our Core Services team, which owns the backend services behind Brightfield’s TDX platform. This is a hands-on role where you will design, build, and operate the Go services that power our core APIs and data access paths. You’ll play a key role in ensuring our services remain reliable, performant, and scalable as our traffic and data grow.
What they're looking for
- 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
More about this role
At Brightfield, we are revolutionizing the way organizations manage their workforce. As a pioneer in workforce analytics, our AI-powered platform, TDX (Talent Data Exchange), helps the world’s largest companies make smarter decisions about how they design, source, and manage their extended workforce.
With over $575B in real-world workforce spend data from 139 countries, we provide the insights our customers need to reduce costs, manage risk, and unlock new levels of agility and performance. Since 2006, we’ve been trusted by the Global 2000 to guide strategic workforce decisions with clarity and confidence.
We are a fully remote team of data-driven innovators, problem solvers, and industry experts who value flexibility, ownership, and continuous learning. At Brightfield, how we work together matters—and we’re building a company where curious, driven people can do their best work.
Brightfield is seeking a Senior Go Engineer to join our Core Services team, which owns the backend services behind Brightfield’s TDX platform. This is a hands-on role where you will design, build, and operate the Go services that power our core APIs and data access paths. You’ll play a key role in ensuring...
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