Lead Backend Platform Engineer: Secure & Scalable Systems

Kindredventures; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Kindredventures is looking for a talented Backend Engineer to join our Backend Platform team in Palo Alto, California. This team is crucial to ensuring our product's reliability and performance, building infrastructure like authentication and real-time data systems.

The ideal candidate will have 4+ years in backend systems, strong design skills, and proficiency in coding languages such as Python or Go. If you thrive in a collaborative, security-sensitive environment, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing and building production backend systems.
• Strong system design skills with efficient and scalable architectures.
• Hands-on experience with modern cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of sandboxing platform.
• Define and extend RBAC and authorization primitives.
• Own backend services for authentication and encryption.

Skills

System design skills

Backend language proficiency (Python, Go, Rust)

Experience with AWS and Kubernetes

Collaborative mindset

Security-sensitive areas expertise

Job description

Kindredventures is looking for a talented Backend Engineer to join our Backend Platform team in Palo Alto, California. This team is crucial to ensuring our product's reliability and performance, building infrastructure like authentication and real-time data systems.

The ideal candidate will have 4+ years in backend systems, strong design skills, and proficiency in coding languages such as Python or Go. If you thrive in a collaborative, security-sensitive environment, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification.