Remote Go Backend Engineer for Cybersecurity Platform

Triwill Group; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Pavago is seeking a Software Engineer specializing in Go backend development to help build and scale a modern cybersecurity platform. This remote, full-time role requires designing scalable APIs, fault-tolerant systems, and enterprise integrations across 100+ systems.

You will work on data pipelines, PostgreSQL schemas, and cloud infrastructure with a strong emphasis on reliability and observability. You’ll own backend services, APIs, and security-focused workflows, collaborating with Product,

Qualifications

• Strong professional backend software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Go/Golang, or strong experience with Python, Java, or TypeScript with willingness to transition to Go.
• Experience building production APIs and distributed backend systems.
• Strong relational database experience, ideally PostgreSQL.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform: GCP, AWS or Azure.
• Hands-on understanding of REST APIs, Webhooks, Authentication systems, Asynchronous processing, Database design and optimization.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to independently own technical problems through resolution.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services primarily using Go.
• Design scalable REST APIs and internal microservices.
• Implement authentication, rate limiting, retry mechanisms, fault tolerance, and robust error handling.
• Write maintainable, production-ready code designed for reliability and scale.
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and improve backend efficiency.
• Build and maintain integrations across 100+ enterprise systems.
• Design event-driven architectures for processing security data and pipelines.
• Work with PostgreSQL and data modeling for multi-tenant architectures.
• Deploy and operate services in cloud environments (GCP preferred).
• Collaborate on architecture decisions and drive reliability and observability.

Skills

Go/Golang

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

OAuth

Event-driven

Cloud (GCP)

Security data

Observability

Backend engineering

Job description

Pavago is seeking a Software Engineer specializing in Go backend development to help build and scale a modern cybersecurity platform. This remote, full-time role requires designing scalable APIs, fault-tolerant systems, and enterprise integrations across 100+ systems.

You will work on data pipelines, PostgreSQL schemas, and cloud infrastructure with a strong emphasis on reliability and observability. You’ll own backend services, APIs, and security-focused workflows, collaborating with Product,