Endor Labs - Senior Backend Engineer - Golang

Endor Labs; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Endor Labs, Bengaluru, India, is building a 0-1 backend product for a security-focused SaaS platform. You will architect and implement core backend infrastructure, lead large-scale projects, and drive architectural decisions across a distributed engineering team.

We seek a strong owner of scalable backends with 3+ years Golang experience and a solid API design track record. You will shape the product’s technical direction, mentor peers, and contribute to a culture of learning and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering with 6-8 years in scalable backends for SaaS products.
• At least 3 years of Golang programming with a focus on microservices/distributed architecture.
• Experience designing APIs with frameworks such as gRPC (preferred), REST, GraphQL, or Thrift.
• Ability to build and document technical solutions that reflect coding best practices at Endor.
• Understand micro-services, domain-driven design, load balancing, and stateless architectures.
• Apply data-driven techniques to evaluate architectural choices and tradeoffs.
• Adapt to a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements and problem-solving independence.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build core backend infrastructure for the SaaS products.
• Lead large-scale technical projects ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Design and implement features end-to-end with Product Management and distributed engineering teams.
• Drive architectural decisions and adopt cutting-edge technologies.
• Contribute to external forums, conferences, and open-source communities.
• Mentor team members and promote best practices for growth.
• Ensure observability to maximize reliability and availability for customers.

Skills

Golang

Backend scalability

Distributed systems

API design (gRPC/REST/GraphQL)

Microservices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

gRPC

GraphQL

REST

Job description

Reporting directly to the Managing Director & R&D Head for India, this is a unique role that involves building a 0 - 1 product at an early-stage startup with a world-class team.

This role is based out of Bengaluru, India.

If you are interested in helping to build a large-scale SaaS service at an early-stage company and the list below matches your background, we would love to talk to you!

About Us

Endor Labs is building the Application Security platform for the software development revolution.

Modern software is complex and dependency-rich, making it increasingly difficult to pinpoint the risks that truly matter.

Endor Labs solves this challenge by building a call graph of your entire software estate - enabling teams to clearly identify, prioritize, and fix critical risks faster.

Trusted by companies that are one or one hundred years old, Endor Labs secures code whether it was written by humans or AI, and whether it's 40-year old C++ code or cutting edge Bazel Monorepos.

Endor Labs was founded by serial entrepreneurs Varun Badhwar and Dimitri Stiliadis, and is backed by leading VC firms such as Dell Technology Capital, Lightspeed, and Sierra Ventures.

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.

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