Back End Developer (Golang)

Series A funded cybersecurity startup is on a mission to protect businesses from the ever-evolving threat landscape. By combining innovative cyber insurance offerings with powerful in-house security products including email security and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) this team is reimagining how cyber risk is managed and mitigated.

Staff Backend Developer to take the lead on designing, scaling, and optimizing our backend infrastructure. This is a rare opportunity to work on high-impact, data-intensive systems powering protection for millions of endpoints all while shaping the future of a venture-backed cybersecurity platform.

What You'll Do

• Architect and develop scalable, high-performance backend systems in Go
• Process and manage terabytes of structured and unstructured security data, optimizing for speed, integrity, and resilience
• Collaborate closely with Product, Security, and Frontend Engineering to deliver features end to end
• Drive architectural decisions, infrastructure improvements, and backend roadmap for new and existing products
• Act as a technical leader and mentor to other engineers, fostering growth and code excellence across the team

Requirements

• 6 years of backend development experience with deep, recent expertise in Go (Golang)
• Proven track record of building distributed systems that process large-scale security telemetry or endpoint data (10M+ endpoints)
• Strong grasp of security engineering, with experience developing products like EDR, email protection, or intrusion detection systems
• Experience with large-scale data storage and search technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, or custom time-series solutions
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code

For this role my client can't sponsor visa's so you have to be a US citizen also Golang experience is a must!