Staff Backend Engineer (Golang)
Endor Labs4 days ago
Responsibilities
- Architect and build core backend infrastructure for Endor Labs’ SaaS products.
- Lead and contribute to large-scale technical projects focused on scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Design, architect, and implement product features end-to-end in collaboration with Product Management and distributed engineering teams.
- Drive architectural decisions, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and lead implementation of new technologies.
- Apply observability best practices to improve product and platform reliability and availability.
- Troubleshoot distributed systems and identify and resolve root causes.
- Mentor and coach team members while promoting coding and engineering best practices.
- Participate in technical forums, conferences, and open-source communities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
- 10+ years of experience building scalable backends for product or SaaS companies.
- At least 3 years of Golang programming experience focused on microservices or distributed architecture.
- Practical experience designing APIs with technologies such as gRPC, REST, GraphQL, or Thrift, with gRPC preferred.
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems, including microservices, domain-driven design, load balancing, scaling, and stateless architectures.
- Strong architecture, data structures, technical problem-solving, and architectural tradeoff evaluation skills.
- Ability to build technical solutions from scratch and produce exemplary code and documentation.
- Experience troubleshooting distributed systems and resolving root causes.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on a developer-focused application security platform at the intersection of developer productivity and security.
- Support for participation in external technical forums, conferences, and open-source communities.
- Inclusive equal opportunity workplace committed to diverse perspectives.
About Endor Labs
Endor Labs is the AppSec platform built for the AI era. It helps teams find, prioritize, and fix the most critical risks in code, whether written by humans or AI—faster. Endor Labs understands the entire structure of your codebase, from 40 year-old C++ to modern Bazel monorepos. Powered by AI agents and the industry's richest security dataset about open source code, Endor Labs doesn’t just flag issues, it reduces noise, prioritizes what matters most, and proposes intelligent remediations based on the context of your code. Whether you’re an upstart or in the Fortune 500, Endor Labs helps AppSec and development teams eliminate noisy alerts, fix code 6.2x faster, and stay compliant with standards like FedRAMP, PCI, SLSA, and NIST SSDF.