Backend Engineer

Cylake•Sunnyvale, CA

About The Position

Join a small team building the next generation of cybersecurity products from the ground up. Led by industry veterans with a proven track record of success - you will get to architect, build, and deliver hugely impactful products with this world-class team. You will have the opportunity to grow your career and skills along with the company from the very start. You will be responsible for designing and building the management layer for a distributed embedded system. This includes designing the policy structure, configuration storage and reliability, secret management, and engines that enable these capabilities. This will allow you to build a performant and robust system from the ground up, having a direct impact on the success of the product line.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a backend or full-stack engineer
Strong proficiency in a subset of modern backend programming languages (Go, Python, Node.js, Rust, etc.)
Deep understanding of database technologies, their performance characteristics, and use cases
Proven experience designing, building, and securing modern RESTful or gRPC-based APIs for highly available systems
Experience with Policy Engines and policy-as-code frameworks
Strong understanding of security and secret storage technologies
Strong communication and documentation skills

Nice To Haves

Frontend experience is a plus
Experience with modern cloud providers and DevOps experience is a plus
IoT and Embedded system experience is a nice-to-have

Responsibilities

Designing and building the management layer for a distributed embedded system.
Designing the policy structure, configuration storage and reliability, secret management, and engines that enable these capabilities.
Building a performant and robust system from the ground up.
Architecting, building, and delivering impactful products.