Senior Backend Engineer (Golang)

Sound interesting? Let’s talk if you want to be part of the next big leap in security innovation!

How You'll Make an Impact

• You will play a pivotal role in architecting and building the core backend infrastructure for our SaaS products.
• You will lead and contribute to large-scale technical projects, ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of our systems.
• Design, architect, and build features end-to-end while working closely with Product Management, and our distributed Engineering team
• Play a significant role in driving innovation, making critical architectural decisions, and leading the implementation of cutting-edge technologies.
• We encourage and support active participation in external technical forums, conferences, and open-source communities, allowing you to contribute to the broader tech community and stay at the forefront of industry trends.
• Mentor and coach team members by sharing your expertise, and promoting best practices within the team to foster a culture of continuous learning and growth.
• Use best practices of observability to ensure that the product and the platform have the best reliability and availability for our customers.

What You Bring to the Table

• Bachelor's degree in engineering with 6-8 years of experience building scalable backends for product/SaaS companies.
• At least 3-years experience in Golang programming with a focus on microservices/distributed architecture
• Practical experience in designing APIs with one or more frameworks (gRPC [preferred], ReST, GraphQL, Thrift, etc.).
• Ability to build and design technical solutions from scratch and your code and documentation can be used as an example for coding best practices at Endor.
• Scalable Distributed System Experience - understand micro-services and domain-driven design, load balancing, horizontal/vertical scaling, and stateless architectures.
• Architecture - knowledge of data structures and a keen eye for building architectures that scale and extend easily for longevity. Apply data-driven techniques to evaluate and propose architectural choices.
• Ability to discuss tradeoffs between architecture’s choice to influence groups to move in the right direction.
• Able to enjoy working in a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and independently when in uncharted or unfamiliar territory.
• Practical experience in troubleshooting distributed systems and ability to solve root causes.

Why Endor Labs

We’re building at the intersection of developer productivity and security — one of the fastest-growing spaces in software. Our dev-loved platform has real ROI, strong momentum, and customers who care about doing things right.

At Endor Labs, we think big, start small, and learn fast. We take ownership, move with purpose, and always start with the customer’s success. We debate with data, make the complex simple, and challenge each other with kindness and candor. We celebrate wins, learn from misses, and have fun along the way — because when our customers win, we all win.

Endor Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Even if you don't fit every requirement above, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives and experiences, so we encourage all talented individuals to apply—there's no one-size-fits-all here.