Backend Software Engineer

About the company

Our client is a cybersecurity company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Build and maintain server-side systems, third-party integrations and data processing services for a software platform. The role covers backend engineering across a shared data layer, cloud infrastructure and production operations, with a focus on shipping quickly and resolving live issues.

What you'll do

- Build and maintain backend services and integrations with a large number of third-party software platforms.

- Design and develop core components that process large volumes of event data through streaming pipelines.

- Build data features such as scoring, outlier detection and time-series rollups within a shared multi-tenant data layer.

- Manage cloud infrastructure, including deployment pipelines, monitoring and observability.

- Ship features on a weekly cadence, debug production issues, and occasionally speak directly with customers.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- 5+ years of backend engineering experience.

- Deep hands-on experience with Go and with endpoint software on desktop operating systems.

- Strong backend experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup.

- Experience with systems internals and platform engineering.

- A quantified record of production scale and ownership in recent work.

- High agency, with a self-directed approach, a bias for action and clear thinking.

- Ability to explain architectural decisions, not just the tasks completed.

Bonus points

- Experience running LLM-based features in production.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: $160K to $200K

- Equity

Location and work model

- San Francisco, California, United States

- Hybrid, with 3 days in-office

- Full-time