BY Recruiting

BY Recruiting

Software Engineer (Back-End Focus)

early-stage cybersecurity startup
Bay Area, CADirect HireHybrid
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About the role

We are looking for a Software Engineer (back-end focus) with 5+ years of experience to join our early-stage, fast-moving team. We are seeking a high-agency individual with strong programming fundamentals who is eager to learn and solve challenging problems in the cybersecurity space. You will be instrumental in building and enhancing our core platform as we scale and take on more customers.

What will you be doing?
Build and maintain backend systems and integrations that connect our platform to over 100 enterprise security platforms like Okta, CrowdStrike, and Slack.
Design and develop core platform components that process large-scale security data, including event-driven pipelines using Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
Work on our multi-tenant data layer, implementing features like risk scoring, anomaly detection, and time-series aggregation.
Contribute to infrastructure management on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including deployment pipelines, monitoring, and observability.
Collaborate with the team to ship features weekly, debug production issues, and have the option to talk directly with customers.

Requirements

- 5-10 years of experience in backend software engineering
- Strong coding skills and system design experience; good internship experience is critical for more junior candidates
- Strong backend experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup
- Experience with systems internals and platform engineering
- Deep hands-on experience in Go, macOS, and Windows endpoints
- Focus on backend development, but open to full-stack engineers transitioning to backend roles
- High agency: self-directed, bias for action, and clear thinking
- Can articulate architectural decisions, not just tasks completed
- High energy, humility, and willingness to learn
- Preference for candidates with startup experience or those eager to work in a dynamic environment
- LLM-in-production experience
- Quantified production scale/ownership language in recent experience