Senior Backend Cloud Engineer

Quick Facts

• Build and evolve an anti-ransomware platform’s data platform and public API services
• Primary focus on Rust and Scala; Python experience highly valued

Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the cloud team, you will lead development and evolution of the data platform and API services for an anti-ransomware security platform. The role focuses on production-grade Scala services with opportunities to shape a targeted migration to Rust. You will also support and enhance a Python-based security analysis platform for malware analysis, automated threat detection, and machine learning workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of features across the data platform and public APIs, including ingestion, transformation, and enrichment of security data
• Drive system design, architecture, and data-flow decisions with product and platform engineering
• Build, deploy, and own Scala-based backend services in production with reliability, security, and performance
• Help execute migration of selected APIs from Scala to Rust while maintaining consistency and continuity
• Set high standards for code quality, documentation, and operational excellence
• Lead design reviews and code reviews; participate in on-call and incident response
• Support and enhance the Python security analysis platform (malware analysis engines, automated threat detection, ML workflows)

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with recent experience in a JVM-based codebase
• Experience designing and owning distributed systems from start to finish
• Rust experience (or strong judgment on when it is appropriate) and ability to guide a migration
• Strong understanding of APIs, messaging systems (Kafka), and modern data stores (Postgres, DynamoDB, OpenSearch)
• Experience building cloud-native services, preferably AWS
• Working knowledge of containers and Kubernetes
• Comfortable working in a remote-first, asynchronous team environment

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents
• 401k with generous employer contribution
• Short/long-term disability, basic life and AD&D insurance
• Medical and dependent care FSA options
• Flexible PTO policy
• Parental leave
• Generous equity offering
• Base salary range: $120,000–$170,000
• Bonus target: 10%