Senior Backend Engineer — Go & Open-Source Data Security

Virtru; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 155,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Learning & Development stipend

Team celebrations

Employee Assistance Program

Headspace access

401K + stock options

Full medical, dental, vision

Diversity & inclusion programs

Job summary

Virtru is hiring a Senior Backend Software Engineer to advance our Go-based backend and the OpenTDF project. You will build foundational services powering our data security platform for enterprise and federal customers, including on‑premise, air‑gapped, and cloud deployments.

You’ll mentor peers, shape architecture, and collaborate across Virtru’s engineering teams to scale secure sharing. This hands‑on role emphasizes distributed systems, IaC, and multi‑language SDKs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend development.
• Proficient in Go and building production‑grade scalable services.
• Experience with APIs (gRPC, REST) and distributed systems.
• IaC experience with Terraform in multi‑cloud environments.
• Ability to own complex technical projects end‑to‑end.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain core backend platform and services using Go.
• Contribute to the OpenTDF project and ensure success across deployment environments.
• Tackle security, scalability, and distributed systems challenges in multi‑language stacks.
• Engineer and deploy solutions for enterprise and federal customers (on‑premise, air‑gapped, cloud).
• Collaborate on multi‑language SDKs (Go, Java, JavaScript) and backend integration.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and design discussions.
• Produce design documents and uphold engineering standards.
• Leverage AI coding agents to accelerate development and scale impact.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Backend development

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

Terraform

Multi-language SDKs

OpenTDF

Tools

Helm

ArgoCD

Job description

Virtru is hiring a Senior Backend Software Engineer to advance our Go-based backend and the OpenTDF project. You will build foundational services powering our data security platform for enterprise and federal customers, including on‑premise, air‑gapped, and cloud deployments.

You’ll mentor peers, shape architecture, and collaborate across Virtru’s engineering teams to scale secure sharing. This hands‑on role emphasizes distributed systems, IaC, and multi‑language SDKs.