/roles — ROLE_23
Backend Engineer
Human risk management that works like magic
The role
- COMP
- $135K - $250K
- EQUITY
- This role includes Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of the total compensation package.
- LOCATION
- San Francisco
- WORKPLACE
- Hybrid
- EXPERIENCE
- 3+ years
- VISA
- None
- STACK
- Kafka, Spark, Airflow, AWS, Terraform, Django, Python, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL
- INDUSTRY
- Cybersecurity, Security, Enterprise, AI, B2B
The company
AI-powered human-risk-management platform — assessing risk, shaping secure behavior, and automating security-compliance reporting.
- STAGE
- growth-stage
- FUNDING
- $30M+ raised
- TEAM
- ~60 people
- FOUNDED
- 2024
JD — the work
About the role
Own production backend services at a growth-stage security company tackling the biggest breach vector there is: human behavior. Reliability and scale work with a modern data-heavy stack, at a company where backend systems are the product's backbone.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and own production-facing backend services
- Drive reliability, scalability, and maintainability of core systems
- Translate customer requirements into durable platform designs
- Build integrations, ETL/data pipelines, and distributed-systems components
- Contribute to cloud infrastructure with AWS, Terraform, EKS
What they're looking for
- 3+ years of backend engineering with production ownership
- Reliable, scalable systems in fast-moving environments
Nice to have
- Data pipelines, distributed systems, or cloud infra depth