# Senior Go Engineer at Brightfield

- Company: Brightfield
- What the company does: Confidence, Accelerated. Creating millions in savings for global businesses. Backed by Sapphire.
- Company website: https://brightfield.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/brightfield/jobs/8729745002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/brightfield-senior-go-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Engineering