About the Role
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will be a senior hands-on member of our backend team, building the systems that collect, process, and remediate vulnerability data from millions of endpoints across some of the world’s largest enterprises.
This is a development-focused individual contributor role. You will spend most of your time designing and building production systems, while also influencing technical decisions, raising engineering standards, and helping other engineers solve complex problems.
You will own major features and technical initiatives from initial design through production, working closely with Product, engineering leadership, and other development teams.
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and operate scalable backend systems used by large enterprise customers
Own complex features end-to-end, from technical design and implementation to deployment and customer adoption
Write high-quality production code and remain deeply involved in day-to-day development
Make architectural decisions for major features and platform capabilities
Improve system reliability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency
Build resilient systems that can handle temporary failures, high traffic volumes, and changing workloads
Identify technical limitations and lead architectural improvements before they become bottlenecks
Define and promote strong engineering practices around testing, code reviews, CI/CD, monitoring, and production ownership
Collaborate with Product and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into practical technical solutions
Mentor engineers through technical discussions, design reviews, and code reviews, without direct people management responsibility
Requirements
7+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience
Strong experience developing scalable production systems using a high-level programming language, with preference for Go
Experience designing and building distributed, cloud-native systems
Proven ownership of complex features or technical initiatives from design through production
Experience working with containers, Kubernetes, databases, and cloud environments
Strong understanding of system reliability, scalability, observability, and failure handling
Experience writing testable code and contributing to CI/CD processes
Ability to make sound technical tradeoffs and communicate them clearly to engineers, Product, and other stakeholders
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a dynamic environment
High ownership mindset and a collaborative, team-oriented approach
Nice to Have
Experience in cybersecurity, endpoint management, or enterprise SaaS
Experience building high-volume systems connected to agents or devices
Experience with security-sensitive systems, including least privilege, auditability, and secure software delivery
Experience with both cloud and on-prem environments
Experience mentoring senior engineers or leading technical initiatives across multiple teams
