Golang Applications Engineer

The position is listed on behalf of a partner company managing all applications and next steps. They are seeking a Golang Applications Engineer based in the United States.

About the role

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced backend engineer to build scalable, high-performance applications using Go in a fully remote environment. You will contribute to cloud-native platforms, infrastructure tooling, and distributed systems where reliability, concurrency, and efficiency are essential. You will work alongside cross-functional teams, helping to transform complex technical requirements into robust production-ready solutions while influencing engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services, cloud-native applications, and infrastructure tooling using Go.
• Build and optimize production-grade REST and gRPC APIs with a focus on scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Develop solutions for distributed systems while ensuring efficient concurrency, networking, and resource utilization.
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, operations, and business teams to translate technical and business requirements into scalable software solutions.
• Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, and code reviews to maintain high engineering standards across the development lifecycle.
• Improve deployment pipelines, containerized environments, and Kubernetes-based applications to support efficient software delivery.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, optimize application performance, and contribute to continuous platform improvements.
• Mentor junior engineers, promote engineering best practices, and contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience with significant hands-on expertise in Go (Golang).
• Strong understanding of Go concurrency concepts, including goroutines, channels, and contexts.
• Proven experience building and maintaining production REST and/or gRPC APIs.
• Hands-on experience developing applications within Kubernetes environments, including Kubernetes-native tooling.
• Solid knowledge of distributed systems, networking fundamentals, and scalable backend architecture.
• Experience working with relational databases, key-value data stores, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized deployments.
• Excellent debugging, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Experience contributing to open-source Go projects, Kubernetes operators/controllers, security-focused applications, service mesh, eBPF, WebAssembly, TinyGo, or embedded systems is considered a plus.

Benefits

• 100% remote position based in the United States.
• Full-time direct employment opportunity.
• Competitive annual salary ranging from $130,000 to $145,000.
• Opportunity to work with modern cloud-native technologies and large-scale distributed systems.
• Exposure to challenging technical projects with strong opportunities for professional growth.
• Collaborative engineering culture focused on innovation, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
• Work alongside experienced engineering teams in a supportive and knowledge-sharing environment.
• Eligibility for U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates (new H-1B sponsorship is not available).