Back-end Engineer (Go): Core Platform

Shadow Phantom; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Equity-based at pre-seed

Flexible remote/Hybrid/On-site安排

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Shadow Phantom is seeking a Go backend engineer to evolve our agentless security platform. You will work on Go services, REST and gRPC APIs, and distributed components as we move toward production readiness.

This fully remote role offers flexibility and equity at a pre-seed stage, with collaboration across security, frontend, and AI teams to deliver scalable, secure, and observable systems. As part of a small, ambitious team, you’ll shape performance, reliability, and security through profiling,

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Go with strong concurrency and performance tuning.
• Experience with cybersecurity, distributed systems, or platform engineering.
• Solid understanding of networking, REST/gRPC APIs, and event-driven systems.

Responsibilities

• Extend and optimize Go services, REST and WebSocket APIs, job queues, and orchestration.
• Improve detection modules, remediation playbooks, and compliance capabilities.
• Strengthen platform protections: authentication, authorization, RBAC, mutual TLS, rate limits, and key rotation.
• Improve scalability and performance through profiling, caching, and concurrency tuning.
• Advance observability with metrics, tracing, and service-level objective practices.
• Collaborate with frontend, AI, and integrations teams to deliver production-ready features.

Skills

Go

Concurrency

Testing

Performance tuning

Distributed systems

Networking

REST

gRPC

Event-driven

Job description

Role overview

Evolve the Go backend and distributed systems of an agentless security platform as it moves from an early product stage toward production readiness. The platform detects and helps remediate cloud exposure, leaked credentials, and related security or compliance issues through outbound-only integrations.

Responsibilities

• Extend and optimize Go services, REST and WebSocket APIs, job queues, and orchestration.
• Improve detection modules, remediation playbooks, and compliance capabilities.
• Strengthen platform protections, including authentication and authorization, role-based access, mutual TLS, rate limits, and key rotation.
• Improve scalability and performance through profiling, caching, and concurrency tuning.
• Advance observability with metrics, tracing, and service-level objective practices.
• Work with frontend, AI, and integrations teams to deliver production-ready features.

Requirements

• Proficiency in Go, including concurrency, testing, and performance tuning.
• Experience in cybersecurity, distributed systems, or platform engineering.
• Strong understanding of networking, REST or gRPC APIs, and event-driven systems.

Benefits and work setup

The position is remote and globally open. Compensation is described as equity-based at a pre-seed stage. The role description also mentions flexible remote, hybrid, or on-site arrangements, career development opportunities, and stock options.