Go Applications Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies • Overland Park, KS

5d • $130,000 - $145,000 • Remote

About The Position

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Go Application Engineer to design and build high-performance backend services, infrastructure tooling, and cloud-native applications using Go. The role focuses on systems where latency, concurrency, and operational efficiency are important, and contributes to a codebase shared by engineers across multiple teams.

The engineer will collaborate with product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to turn ambiguous requirements into well-engineered solutions. The role also includes raising engineering standards through code reviews, design reviews, and mentoring more junior engineers. The successful candidate should bring strong engineering discipline, clear communication, and a record of delivering production-ready work.

This is a full-time, direct W-2 position that is 100% remote in the United States. The annual salary range is $130,000–$145,000. The posting encourages applications from U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and candidates transferring an H-1B, but states that new H-1B petitions cannot be sponsored.

Requirements

• At least five years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience in Go.
• Strong understanding of Go concurrency patterns, including goroutines, channels, and contexts.
• Hands-on experience building production gRPC and/or REST APIs in Go.
• Experience with Kubernetes-native development, including client-go and 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.

Nice To Haves

• Open-source contributions to Go-based projects.
• Experience writing Kubernetes operators or controllers.
• Familiarity with eBPF, service mesh, or low-level systems programming.
• Exposure to security-sensitive Go projects, such as cryptography or authentication.
• Experience with WASM, Tinygo, or embedded systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance backend services, infrastructure tooling, and cloud-native applications using Go.
• Contribute to systems and a codebase shared by engineers across multiple teams.
• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous requirements into well-engineered solutions.
• Participate in code reviews and design reviews to raise engineering standards.
• Mentor more junior engineers.
• Deliver meaningful work that performs reliably in production.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed