Company Overview: At Praetorian, we are bringing together the world's brightest minds in pursuit of solving the cybersecurity problem by eradicating insecure software and enabling the next wave of technological innovation. As a backend software engineer, you will be responsible for developing core features and functions that help secure the world. At the forefront of state of the art, you will have a chance to work with cutting-edge technologies and develop against a modern technology stack.
Career opportunity:
- Work in a modern stack in Golang, Kafka, GCP, Kubernetes
- Join an industry with massive societal, economic, and political importance in the 21st century
- Work alongside some of the best and the brightest minds in the security industry
- Leave an indelible mark on a company where individual input has a real impact
- Align your career trajectory with a hyper-growth company that is on the move
Core responsibilities:
- Design, build, and test backend microservice software in Golang
- Write clean and scalable code with automated tests
- Backend engineers, as a team, run the production systems
- Provide technical leadership for an agile engineering team
- Mentor engineers on architecture, coding craft, infrastructure, and operations
Top skills we are looking for:
- Problem solving
- Design and coding
- Golang expertise
- Experience scaling up systems
- Systems expertise: distributed systems, databases, and infrastructure
Desired Qualifications:
- At least 10 years professional experience writing enterprise grade software
- Deep experience with Golang
- Deep experience with Kubernetes
- Deep experience with large-scale distributed systems
- Proven experience in operating production software
- Experience with microservice, event-driven, and multi-tenant architectures
- Bachelors in computer science, computer engineering, mathematics, or related fields
Desired behaviors:
- End-to-end ownership on problems
- Ability to maintain high levels of output and work ethic
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity in an environment where we build the plane as we fly it
- Pragmatic program solving
- Personable individual who enjoys working in a team-oriented environment
- Obsession with addressing customer problems
Compensation & Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Employee stock option plan
- Competitive coverage on health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401K with company matching
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will need to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
We are dedicated to an inclusive and diverse Praetorian. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.