Senior Backend Developer

Design and implement our event processing pipeline and detection infrastructure. Our sensors generate millions of security events per day that need to be ingested, correlated, analyzed, and turned into actionable detections. You'll build the distributed systems that make sense of this firehose of runtime data, working at the intersection of high-throughput data processing and security intelligence.

What You'll Do

  • Build and optimize our event ingestion pipeline handling millions of events from distributed sensors.
  • Design detection rules and correlation logic that identify exploitation patterns across event streams.
  • Develop ClickHouse schemas and queries optimized for security event analysis and threat hunting.
  • Implement gRPC services for sensor communication and internal microservices.
  • Work on Kafka-style message processing for reliable event delivery and processing.
  • Build APIs and tooling for security analysts to query and investigate runtime detections.
  • Optimize system performance and resource utilization as data volumes scale.

What We're Looking For

  • 5+ years of backend development experience building distributed systems.
  • Strong Go proficiency, you've shipped production Go services at scale.
  • Experience with high-throughput message systems (Kafka, Redpanda, NATS, Pulsar).
  • ClickHouse or similar columnar database experience (Druid, TimescaleDB, BigQuery).
  • Deep understanding of gRPC, protocol buffers, and service-to-service communication.
  • Track record of optimizing performance in data-intensive applications.
  • Comfort working with security concepts and detection logic.
  • Experience using AI coding assistants and LLM-based tooling in production development workflows.

Nice to Have

  • Background in security tooling, SIEM, EDR, or threat detection platforms.
  • Experience with stream processing frameworks (Flink, Kafka Streams).
  • Kubernetes and containerized microservices deployment.
  • Observability stack experience (Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Understanding of security detection engineering and MITRE ATT&CK framework.
  • Familiarity with prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, or embedded-based search for security applications.
  • Open source contributions to Go, Kafka, or ClickHouse ecosystems.

Our Stack

  • Go for all backend services.
  • gRPC for transport and service communication.
  • Redpanda (Kafka-compatible) for event streaming.
  • ClickHouse for event storage and analytical queries.
  • Kubernetes for deployment.
  • Microservices architecture with containerized workloads.

How We Work

We're a small, high-output team that ships fast and iterates faster. No heavy process, no endless meetings, no tickets-for-the-sake-of-tickets. You'll own problems end-to-end, from design through production, with the autonomy to make, and own, real decisions

  • AI-first development. AI coding tools aren't optional here, they're how we move at startup speed with a startup-sized team. We use Codex, Claude Code, and LLM-assisted workflows daily for writing, reviewing, debugging, and testing code. If you're not already using AI to multiply your output, you’re already behind.
  • High bar, high trust. We hire people who don't need to be managed. You'll be expected to context-switch, dig into unfamiliar systems, and figure things out without a playbook. We review each other's work rigorously but skip the ceremony.
  • Startup pace. This is an early-stage cybersecurity company going after a hard problem. The work is demanding, the scope is broad, and the impact is immediate. Every engineer touches the product in ways that are visible to customers.

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