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About the role

  • Backend-focused software engineer building secure, scalable infrastructure with a fully distributed team. Converting product requirements into technical design documentation and implementing enterprise-scale backend services.

Responsibilities

  • Join a small, senior team at the early stages of building a product from scratch
  • Convert product requirements into thorough technical design documentation
  • Architect and implement backend services built to handle enterprise-scale demand
  • Design systems with high availability and fault tolerance in mind
  • Embed security thinking at every layer — application, API, and infrastructure
  • Own API design across both public-facing and internal service boundaries, including schema modeling and integration patterns
  • Work cross-functionally with product and design stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle
  • Thrive in a remote-first environment using a blend of synchronous video calls and async communication
  • Stay current with emerging technologies and approach new challenges with genuine curiosity
  • Take part in engineering hiring by conducting interviews and evaluating candidates

Requirements

  • Strong working knowledge of Go
  • Hands-on background with microservices and service-oriented architecture
  • Comfort writing raw SQL and designing relational database schemas, preferably in Postgres
  • Practical experience with CI/CD workflows and container orchestration via Kubernetes
  • Prior work building observability tooling — metrics pipelines, alerting systems, and distributed tracing
  • Working knowledge of modern auth protocols such as OAuth 2.0, SAML, OIDC, or WebAuthn (Nice to have)
  • Exposure to corporate IT and security tooling (device management, endpoint protection, etc.) (Nice to have)
  • Experience designing and maintaining audit log systems (Nice to have)
  • Familiarity with regulatory and compliance frameworks (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA) (Nice to have)
  • Understanding of PKI infrastructure and certificate management (Nice to have)

Benefits

  • Fully remote, with core overlap expected during North American business hours
  • Twice-yearly in-person team gatherings
  • Flexible, open vacation policy — with a genuine expectation that you use at least two weeks annually
  • 16 company-designated holidays per year, including a winter break period
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$230,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

KubernetesMicroservicesPostgresSQLGo

Location requirements

RemoteNorth America

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