Remote Software Engineer — Web Infra & Security

Blackwall; United States; Remote; USD 101,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackwall is seeking a seasoned Software Engineer to evolve its web infrastructure and security tech. You’ll work on high-performance systems, bot detection, and threat mitigation in a remote-friendly role within Europe.

The team prefers engineers who understand the internet, can solve complex problems, and apply their knowledge to new challenges with AI-assisted tools. You’ll contribute to architecture, tackle production ownership, and collaborate with a distributed engineering team in a

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience across web infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, or related domains.
• Solid understanding of internet technologies, including HTTP and web servers.
• Experience building scalable, performance-sensitive software systems.
• Ability to work across languages and technologies, not tied to a single stack.
• Genuine technical curiosity shown through work, open-source contributions or personal projects.
• Strong problem-solving and independent thinking with sound engineering judgment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize high-performance software for web traffic management, security, and automated threat mitigation.
• Build and improve components of web infrastructure, traffic processing, and bot detection systems.
• Investigate automated threats such as scraping, crawlers, credential stuffing, and abusive automation to craft defenses.
• Work with web servers, networking tech, and open-source infrastructure, extending components where needed.
• Explore new technologies, run experiments, and use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate work.
• Contribute to technical architecture and own solutions through production.

Skills

Web infra

Networking

Cybersecurity

Open-source

AI-assisted dev

Tools

C++

Go

Nginx

Apache

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

Docker

GitLab CI/CD

Linux

Job description

Blackwall is seeking a seasoned Software Engineer to evolve its web infrastructure and security tech. You’ll work on high-performance systems, bot detection, and threat mitigation in a remote-friendly role within Europe.

The team prefers engineers who understand the internet, can solve complex problems, and apply their knowledge to new challenges with AI-assisted tools. You’ll contribute to architecture, tackle production ownership, and collaborate with a distributed engineering team in a