Senior Go Developer
Jobgether
$175,000–$200,000from the description
Jul 20, 2026
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Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend-focused role centered on building and optimizing cloud-native services in Go, including gRPC and REST APIs, Kubernetes operators and controllers, CLI tooling, and distributed infrastructure components. The work spans performance profiling, integration with messaging and data systems, and observability instrumentation. Suited to an engineer with deep Go expertise and distributed systems experience who is also comfortable mentoring others and contributing to architectural decisions.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 12,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,450–21,600
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
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The role is fully remote across the United States; no specific metro or state is indicated, so CBSA and state fields are left blank.
The JD lists a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline under Requirements with no 'or equivalent experience' escape clause, so it is treated as a hard requirement.
client-go and controller-runtime are listed as interchangeable examples ('tools such as client-go or controller-runtime') for building Kubernetes-native applications; client-go is used as the primary name with controller-runtime as the alternative.
Kafka and NATS are listed together as messaging platform examples; Kafka is used as the primary name with NATS as the alternative.
gRPC and REST are listed as interchangeable API styles ('gRPC and/or REST APIs'); gRPC is used as the primary name with REST as the alternative.
PostgreSQL, Redis, and etcd appear in the Accountabilities section as integration targets ('technologies such as…'), not under a formal Requirements heading. However, they are named concretely alongside the required distributed-systems and data-store experience, so they are retained as required skills consistent with the role's hard gates on database and messaging experience.
eBPF, service mesh, WASM, TinyGo, and open-source Kubernetes operator contributions are explicitly called out as 'a plus' and are marked preferred accordingly.
The posting is listed via Jobgether on behalf of an unnamed partner company; the actual employer is not identified.
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