Staff Backend Engineer

Overview

Serve as the staff-level backend technical anchor for an India engineering pod building secure database and network-device connectors on a Zero Standing Privileges platform. Own complex backend engineering work in Go and influence architecture, execution, and engineering quality.

What you'll do

• Design, code, debug, test, monitor, and deploy backend services and connector plugins in Go.
• Build scalable components for database scraping and network protocol management.
• Own complex incidents, root-cause analysis, and remediation automation.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, observability, alerting, documentation, and technical debt.
• Identify technical risks, dependency gaps, and performance bottlenecks.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, Go best practices, and pairing.
• Collaborate with global technical leads on designs, dependencies, and architecture alignment.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years building high-scale, cloud-native backend systems.
• Strong Go engineering skills or deep expertise in C++, Rust, or Java with proven ability to learn Go quickly.
• Experience with PAM, IAM, or deep networking infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with SSH, Telnet, TCP/IP, database security, microservices, and asynchronous event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD automation, and observability tools.
• Ability to own large tasks, influence team decisions, and develop surrounding engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience at security or PAM companies such as CyberArk or Delinea.
• Experience with graph databases such as ArangoDB or policy engines such as OPA.
• Open-source infrastructure contributions or technical blogging.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• Work mode: Hybrid.
• Participation in a global on-call rotation is required.