Senior Backend Engineer ((Python / Go)
RapidFort, Inc.5 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$140k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable backend microservices primarily using Go.
- Own services across design, build, deployment, on-call operations, incident response, and scaling.
- Define API specifications and integration points with product managers and frontend teams.
- Deploy, monitor, and scale services efficiently in Kubernetes.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and maintain high availability and performance.
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, planning, and continuous improvement of development processes, tooling, and infrastructure.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional backend software development experience, with significant experience building and operating production microservices.
- Advanced Python expertise with FastAPI, Flask, or Django and expert Go experience building high-concurrency microservices.
- Expertise designing, developing, and deploying APIs and working with distributed systems.
- Experience with Keycloak, API authentication, JWT, MySQL, ClickHouse, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, and comprehensive testing.
- Experience using AWS, Azure, or GCP for deployment, monitoring, and scaling.
- Demonstrated ownership of one or more services end to end, including design, deployment, on-call support, incident fixes, and scaling.
- Strong system-design, debugging, performance-tuning, Linux, container-runtime, observability, CI/CD, security, and reliability skills.
- Datadog experience is required, or equivalent experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and ELK.
Benefits
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid time off and company holidays
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development and training support
- Performance-based bonuses if applicable
Tech Stack
AWKAWSAzureClickHouseDatadogDjangoDockerFastAPIFlaskGitGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesLinuxMySQLPrometheusPythonRedis
About RapidFort, Inc.
RapidFort builds a SaaS platform for securing containerized applications and the software supply chain, offering curated near‑zero CVE images, SBOM/RBOM generation, and runtime hardening to reduce attack surface. It serves enterprises and U.S. public‑sector customers, including defense work that requires U.S. citizenship for some roles. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the company is privately held.