Staff Software Engineer, Security Engineering

Role overview

Lead the technical direction of backend systems for a security product that helps organizations manage cyber risk. This is a senior individual contributor role with hands-on product development, architectural ownership, and close partnership with product, design, and engineering colleagues. The work spans rapid prototyping, platform simplification, reliability, and team mentorship.

Responsibilities

- Turn product goals into iterative plans, shape scope, and build or refine prototypes, contributing across the stack with backend depth. - Own backend architecture and evolution across distributed services, and contribute to related security products. - Improve engineering standards for code quality, reviews, testing, and reliability; use AI-assisted development tools as part of the workflow. - Guide a small engineering team through design trade-offs, reviews, and technical decisions, while mentoring colleagues. - Partner across departments and take ownership of technical decisions through delivery. - Participate in an on-call rotation, approximately one week every eight weeks.

Requirements

- Proven experience designing and operating backend distributed, event-driven systems and cloud services in production; experience with AWS queues or streaming systems is useful. - Demonstrated technical leadership through architecture decisions, engineering standards, mentoring, and cross-team work. - Strong skills in a modern backend language and framework; Python and FastAPI are useful, while Go is not required. - Comfort with TypeScript/Node.js and familiarity with React are beneficial. - Hands-on experience building and maintaining APIs and integrating external services. - Track record of simplifying complex existing systems, plus practical security knowledge and clear, outcome-focused communication. - Strong working experience with AI-assisted software development tools.

Nice to have

- Cybersecurity experience is helpful but not required.

Benefits and work setup

- Remote-first work, flexible paid time off, health and wellness programs, home-office support, and access to coworking space are listed. - The stated US base salary range is $160,000–$230,000, varying by geographic market and candidate qualifications.