Backend Engineer

Allen Recruitment; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Allen Recruitment is hiring for a fast-growing security software company building a modern platform used by security teams. This backend role offers high ownership, where you’ll move fast, own core services, and power security workflows at scale.

You’ll work in Go to build and maintain backend services, design REST APIs, optimize PostgreSQL schemas for high-volume data, and integrate with third‑party systems.

Qualifications

• Domain + environment: startup experience, security software product experience.
• Technical: Go (Golang) backend services, REST APIs, PostgreSQL schema design and optimization, 3rd‑party integrations, observability, SaaS backend, and security patterns.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs in Go
• Design and optimise PostgreSQL schemas and queries for high-volume data
• Build reliable integration layers across internal services and third-party systems
• Implement observability across services (metrics, tracing, logging)
• Apply security best practices across the backend
• Collaborate with engineers to improve platform reliability

Skills

Go (Golang)

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

3rd‑party API integrations

Observability

SaaS backend

Security best practices

Job description

We’re hiring for a fast-growing, venture-backedsecurity softwarecompany building a modern platform used by security teams. This is a hands-on backend role in a high-ownership environment where you’ll move fast, own core services, and build reliable systems that power security workflows at scale.

Important:for this search, we’re only prioritising candidates who have(1) prior startup experienceand(2) prior security software product experience.

Must-haves (hard requirements)

Domain + environment

• Startup experience:you’ve shipped and operated production systems in a startup / high-growth environment (ambiguity, pace, ownership)
• Security software product experience:you’ve built or maintained asecurity product(e.g., compliance automation/GRC, AppSec tooling, IAM, cloud security, vulnerability management, audit/evidence workflows, security operations tooling) as part of the core product

Technical

• Go (Golang):commercial/production backend services (not “exposure”)
• REST APIs:design + implementation of backend services/APIs
• PostgreSQL:schema design + query optimisation (high-volume data)
• 3rd‑party API integrations:building reliable integration/orchestration layers across internal + external systems
• Production observability:metrics and distributed tracing and/or structured logging (something concrete you’ve implemented/operated)
• SaaS backend/platform experience:architecting/building/operating a production SaaS backend
• Security best practices:authn/authz, secure service-to-service comms, and secure-by-default backend patterns

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs in Go
• Design and optimise PostgreSQL schemas and queries for high-volume data
• Build reliable integration layers across internal services and third-party systems
• Implement observability across services (metrics, tracing, logging)
• Apply security best practices across the backend
• Collaborate with other engineers to improve developer experience and overall platform reliability

Nice-to-haves

• gRPC (or similar)
• Workflow engines / queue-based job orchestration
• Deeper information security domain experience
• TypeScript exposure (helpful when working closely with frontend/fullstack teams)

Next steps

Job Ref:BBBH26103