Back-End Software Engineer

Over 280 employees work across sales, engineering, consulting and the SOC. Products include endpoint protection, email security and a cloud posture management platform.

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Back-End Software Engineer. Backend role focused on API design, data modeling and making slow things fast. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility.

What you'll do:

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.

About you:

• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.

Also helpful:

• Prior work breaking up a monolith.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.

Compensation and benefits:

Starting pay: $149,000 - $176,000 a year, depending on experience and certifications.

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Paid sick leave.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Three weeks of PTO to start.

Bosun Security provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

This position requires a background check.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Bosun Security.