Founding Backend Engineer
Core
Build the platform's control-plane services, discovery pillar, and identity firewall hot path to translate security architecture specifications into production code.
Role type
Founding Backend Engineer
Builds
Control-plane services (api-gateway, auth-service, tenant-service, billing-service), Discovery pillar (discover-svc, scan-worker, identity-graph-service), Identity Firewall hot path (PDP, PIP cache, injection-detect), and customer-side PEP form factors (SDKs, Envoy filter, gRPC sidecar).
Domain
Cybersecurity / Identity Management / Multi-tenant SaaS
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, Python, multi-tenant SaaS architecture, low-latency service optimization (sub-50ms p99), PostgreSQL, Neo4j, ClickHouse, Redis, AWS/GCP/Azure SDKs, AI model integration (Bedrock/Vertex/OpenAI), Llama Guard, OPA, pprof profiling, GC tuning.
Preferred skills
TypeScript
Technologies
Go, Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL 15+, Neo4j Aura, ClickHouse, Redis 7+, S3, Elasticsearch, pgvector, OpenSearch k-NN, SQS, Bedrock, Vertex, OpenAI, Llama Guard, OPA, Envoy, gRPC
Responsibilities
Translate security architect specifications and OpenAPI contracts into production code meeting SLOs; build control-plane services and multi-tenant onboarding; implement discovery workers and identity graph services; develop identity firewall components and AI-based injection detection; create language SDKs and Envoy filters for customer integration.
Seniority
Founding, hands-on IC