Senior Backend Engineer
Xage Securityalmost 3 years ago
Palo Alto, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$150k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own specific project scopes and initiatives while ensuring high-quality deliverables.
- Define, develop, and maintain deployment processes and tools for Xage solutions across IT, OT, and cloud environments.
- Provide ongoing support and improve system health and reliability.
- Adopt emerging technologies and best practices for highly scalable, distributed, and autonomous systems.
- Lead, direct, guide, and empower others to succeed.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of software development experience using HTTP/S proxies, WebSockets, packet tracing, and multi-tier client/server communication.
- In-depth understanding of JavaScript execution in modern web browsers and authentication and authorization using JWT, SAML, and SSO.
- Working knowledge of multithreading, inter-process communication, socket programming, and high-performance, low-latency programming.
- Knowledge of secure coding, vulnerability assessment, and threat analysis using C++, Go, or Java.
- Hands-on experience with RDP, VNC, HTTP, SSH, authentication, certificates, and TLS.
- Experience with cryptography, PKI, microservice architecture, large-scale infrastructure, reverse proxies, NGINX, SOCKS5, and load-balancer session management.
- Strong quality, debugging, troubleshooting, communication, and Linux system skills.
- Experience with Linux systems such as Ubuntu, Alpine, and Red Hat Linux, as well as Docker.
- Experience developing NGINX plugins or working with NGINX internals is preferred.
- Experience developing applications with the Guacamole framework is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Full health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Visa transfers and immigration processing.
- Opportunity to work closely with founders and executives and participate in company building.
- Early-stage opportunity in a rapidly growing company.
About Xage Security
Xage Security builds a zero-trust access and protection platform for critical infrastructure and other operational-technology environments. Its Xage Fabric provides identity and access management, zero-trust remote access, and data security to enterprises and government agencies across energy, utilities, manufacturing, transportation, and space, sold as subscription software with professional services. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, it counts organizations such as the U.S. Space Force and PETRONAS among its customers.