Software Engineer, Go - Codebase Q&A
Salary$130 per project
LocationUnited States
Work moderemote
Typecontract
SeniorityMid
Experience3+ yrs
DepartmentAI Training
Company size10,000+ people
PostedSep 16, 2026 · 3w ago
Verified live1d ago
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3+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial production Go
Demonstrated ability to navigate a large, unfamiliar Go codebase and explain how it behaves at runtime
Fluency in Go concurrency, interfaces, module boundaries, and the standard library; comfort reading generated code and build tooling
Precise written English
Comfortable with git at commit level, containerized environments, and command-line tooling
Experience with distributed systems, networking, storage engines, or Kubernetes-ecosystem tooling
Identity verification required
Background check required
Signed Terms of Work and CIIAA required
Tax form required
Pass a short calibration quiz before task access is granted
Skills
Go
git
containerized environments
command-line tooling
etcd
Traefik
Helm
Kustomize
CoreDNS
NATS Server
Temporal
Syncthing
restic
Authelia
BadgerDB
quic-go
gRPC-Go
Hugo
rclone
Trivy
cert-manager
Pion WebRTC
Insightful
Okta
This role is for one of our clients
Compensation: $130 per task
About the role
We are seeking experienced Go engineers to build the dataset that teaches AI agents to reason about real codebases.
Codebase Q&A is a reinforcement-learning environment for training AI agents to explore and reason about software repositories they have never seen before. You will build difficult codebase-exploration tasks: high-level engineering questions about production Go repositories that cannot be answered by reading a single file, and that require runtime evidence to resolve — the kind of question a senior engineer answers by actually investigating the system.
This track works on infrastructure-grade Go codebases including etcd, Traefik, Helm, Kustomize, CoreDNS, NATS Server, Temporal, Syncthing, restic, Authelia, BadgerDB, quic-go, gRPC-Go, Hugo, rclone, Trivy, cert-manager and Pion WebRTC.
Contract, task-based work paid at $130 per approved task, performed remotely in our Studio.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
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Select tasks from a pre-validated pool of Go repositories, each pinned to a specific git commit and arriving with an engineering question, positive and negative rubrics, foils, and a golden solution
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Explore the repository until you genuinely understand the subsystem in question, including the relevant PR or issue history
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Rewrite the task’s question so it defeats frontier coding agents while remaining well-defined and fairly answerable
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Adjust rubrics and foils so they reward correct reasoning and reject plausible-but-wrong answers
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Run the full validation loop in Studio — Check, Golden, Run, Analyze — and iterate until every stage passes
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Document your work in the task README and submit for expert review, addressing reviewer feedback on returned tasks
Ideal Qualifications
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3+ years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial production Go
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Demonstrated ability to navigate a large, unfamiliar Go codebase and explain how it behaves at runtime — not just what the source says
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Fluency in Go concurrency, interfaces, module boundaries, and the standard library; comfort reading generated code and build tooling
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Experience with distributed systems, networking, storage engines, or Kubernetes-ecosystem tooling is highly relevant — the task mix is weighted toward architecture and system design (42%), code onboarding (26%) and root-cause analysis (20%)
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Precise written English: the questions and rubrics you write are the product
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Comfortable with git at commit level, containerized environments, and command-line tooling
Working Details
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Fully remote and asynchronous, with expert team leads across US, India, and Nigeria time zones
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Work is performed in our Studio; time is tracked with Insightful, and platform access is provisioned through Okta
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Onboarding requires identity verification, a background check, signed Terms of Work and CIIAA, a tax form, and passing a short calibration quiz before task access is granted
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Payment is per approved task; every task is reviewed by a second engineer and a super reviewer before acceptance
Application Process
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Submit your resume or relevant technical background to get started
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Qualified applicants may be asked to complete a brief technical assessment or provide additional information
Legal
We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.