Remote Backend Engineer — Open-Source APIs

SpecterOps Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Flexible time off

13 paid holidays

401(k) with company match

Stock options & quarterly bonuses

Remote work setup allowance

Professional development allowance

Education reimbursement

Lifestyle and wellness budget

Family planning benefit

Job summary

SpecterOps is seeking a mid-level back-end software engineer to join our Internal and Community Products team, working on Mythic and Ghostwriter. You will design, develop, and document back-end components using Python, Go, Docker, and PostgreSQL across web apps, REST/GraphQL APIs, and tooling.

Remote U.S. role with quarterly travel, autonomy, and ownership of tasks. Salary range $125,000–$150,000 with strong emphasis on growth and open-source contribution.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software design and application development experience.
• Experience developing extensible APIs and highly maintainable services.
• Professional experience with back-end languages such as Go, Python, or comparable languages.
• Familiarity with relational database technologies such as PostgreSQL.
• Experience working with Git and modern collaborative software development workflows.
• Experience developing or supporting containerized applications using Docker or similar technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, support, and maintain back-end components of our internal and open-source projects.
• Develop and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs, services, command-line tools, data models, and integrations using Python and Go.
• Work with containerized applications and supporting services using Docker and Docker Compose.
• Contribute to infrastructure automation and deployment tooling using Ansible and Terraform.
• Independently investigate technical problems, evaluate potential solutions, and drive work through implementation, testing, and release.
• Write and maintain automated tests and participate in code reviews to improve software quality and maintainability.
• Follow SpecterOps's code style guides and development processes.
• Contribute to and maintain technical documentation for the components and features you develop.
• Assist internal users encountering problems with project components.
• Monitor and participate in external discussions, issues, and pull requests on GitHub related to our open-source projects.

Skills

Go

Python

APIs

PostgreSQL

Tools

Docker

Docker Compose

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Job description

SpecterOps is seeking a mid-level back-end software engineer to join our Internal and Community Products team, working on Mythic and Ghostwriter. You will design, develop, and document back-end components using Python, Go, Docker, and PostgreSQL across web apps, REST/GraphQL APIs, and tooling.

Remote U.S. role with quarterly travel, autonomy, and ownership of tasks. Salary range $125,000–$150,000 with strong emphasis on growth and open-source contribution.