Senior Systems Engineer (Go / Distributed Systems)

Employment Type: Full-time, Independent Contractor (Initial 6-month contract with extension options)

Work Model: Remote (Exclusively sourcing near-shore candidates from Latin America: Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, or equivalent time zones)

Work Hours: US Business Hours alignment (Minimum 4–5 hours daily synchronous overlap required)

Role Overview

We are seeking a senior Senior Systems Engineer specializing in production Go development to build high-performance, distributed backend systems for our US-based InsurTech client—a SaaS platform supporting 800+ independent insurance agencies and 3.5+ million policyholders.

Working directly alongside systems engineering leadership, you will architect, build, and optimize core platform services that enable rapid product innovation. Operating within a modern Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, and cloud-native microservices ecosystem, you will own the end-to-end design of concurrent services, build deep observability, eliminate performance bottlenecks, and ensure system reliability at enterprise scale.





Key Responsibilities

1. High-Performance Go Systems Engineering

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Go Microservices Execution: Design, build, and deploy robust, highly concurrent microservices in Go, optimizing for low latency, throughput, and system maintainability.

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Architecture & Scalability: Partner with systems engineering leadership to refine architectural roadmaps, implement distributed systems patterns, and manage system constraints across high-volume data and transaction pipelines.

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Performance Optimization: Diagnose performance bottlenecks, optimize SQL queries and indexing, and build resilient asynchronous or event-driven processing pipelines.

2. Observability, Infrastructure & Code Governance

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Production Observability: Embed telemetry, logging, and metrics monitoring across Go services to ensure complete system transparency and production reliability.

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Containerized Deployment: Deploy and manag

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