Backend Engineer, Security

Eneba Games; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Options

Learning budget

Volunteer opportunities

Work location of your choice: office,

Remote work

Job summary

Eneba is seeking a Security Engineer to join a growing security team. You will focus on both operational and strategic security work, learning Eneba's stack and how services fit together to secure systems effectively.

Day-to-day, you’ll perform hands-on security coding, incident response, threat-hunting, and policy/documentation work while collaborating with backend engineers and other departments across the company.

Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to explain technical risk to non-technical audiences.
• Solid PHP knowledge and experience with PHP-based stacks.
• Security knowledge or demonstrated interest (bug bounties, CTFs, blogs, community).
• Background in IT, backend engineering, or related technical field.
• Self-sufficiency and ability to own tasks with limited guidance.
• Ownership mentality and strong problem-solving skills.
• Willingness to learn across multiple systems, languages, and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on coding and security implementation work, plus incident response and threat-hunting.
• Review and triage security submissions and incident reports.
• Evaluate and respond to bug bounty reports with remediation follow-through.
• Build, operate, and improve incident response and remediation processes.
• Write and maintain security policies and documentation.
• Communicate security requirements and risks clearly to non-technical departments.
• Review application monitoring and logs to catch and investigate anomalies.
• Support access governance and permission-management processes.

Skills

Strong communication

PHP knowledge

Security awareness

Backend engineering

Ownership mindset

Cross-system learning

Tools

PHP/Symfony

Golang

GraphQL

gRPC

CQRS

Microservices

Kubernetes

Helm

AWS

Terraform

Prometheus

InfluxDB

Redis

ElasticSearch

MariaDB/MySQL

Job description

About Eneba

At Eneba, we’re building an open, safe and sustainable marketplace for the gamers of today and tomorrow. Our marketplace supports close to 20m+ active users (and growing fast!), provides a level of trust, safety and market accessibility unparalleled to none. We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished in such a short time and look forward to sharing this journey with you. Join us as we continue to scale, diversify our portfolio, and grow with the evolving community of gamers.

About your team

You will join a growing security team where you can take meaningful ownership of the practices and policies you help develop. You will work closely with backend engineering and other departments to integrate practical security requirements across the company.

About the role

As a Security Engineer, you'll cover a broad range of operational and strategic security work rather than a single narrow specialty. In your first few months, you'll focus on learning Eneba's tech stack and understanding how our services and systems fit together. That foundation is essential before you can secure those systems effectively.

Day-to-day, you can expect to:

• Hands-on coding and security implementation work make up the largest part of the role today, alongside incident response and threat-hunting responsibilities.
• Review and triage security submissions and incident reports.
• Evaluate and respond to bug bounty reports, including remediation follow-through
• Build, operate, and improve incident response and remediation processes.
• Write and maintain security policies and documentation.
• Communicate security requirements and risks clearly to non-technical departments
• Review application monitoring and logs to catch and investigate anomalies
• Support access governance and permission-management processes.

About the tech

The tech stack is the same one our backend teams work with. You're not expected to know all of it on day one, but you should expect to be learning how to use most of it within your first 3 months, and you'll also be working across other languages and systems used throughout the company as your role demands.

Code

• PHP/Symfony
• Golang
• GraphQL
• gRPC
• CQRS, commands via saga/temporal, queries via GraphQL
• Microservices architecture
• Service orchestration with Saga / temporal.io

Databases

• InfluxDB
• Redis
• ElasticSearch
• MariaDB
• MySQL

Infrastructure

• Kubernetes
• Helm
• AWS
• Terraform
• Prometheus

What we’re looking for

• Strong written and verbal communication skills - this is our highest priority, since you’ll regularly need to explain technical risk to non-technical audiences
• Solid PHP knowledge
• Security knowledge, or a clearly demonstrated interest in security (bug bounties, CTFs, security blogs, following the security community)
• A background in IT, backend engineering, or a related technical field
• Self-sufficiency - comfort taking ownership of tasks and making progress without constant guidance.
• Ownership mentality and strong problem-solving skills
• Openness to learning and working across multiple systems, languages, and technologies rather than staying in one lane

Nice to have

• Experience with monitoring tools and application monitoring
• Familiarity with the OWASP Top 10

What it’s like to work at Eneba

• Opportunity to join our Employee Stock Options program.
• Opportunity to help scale a unique product.
• Various bonus systems: performance-based, referral, additional paid leave, personal learning budget.
• Paid volunteering opportunities.
• Work location of your choice: office, remote, opportunity to work and travel.
• Personal and professional growth at an exponential rate supported by well-defined feedback and promotion processes.