Senior Backend Engineer — Golang, AI Security & Scale

Socket.dev; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Endor Labs, based in Palo Alto, CA, is seeking a senior backend engineer to help build a large-scale SaaS security platform in a hybrid setting. The role centers on a distributed monorepo backend and owning core features from IDE to deployment.

Applicants should have 8+ years in engineering, strong Golang skills, and experience with microservices, cloud-native tooling, and AI-assisted code security. We value autonomy, rigorous design, and clear architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in engineering and 8+ years of experience.
• Proven Golang mastery with microservices expertise.
• Experience with tool chains like Maven, pip, npm.
• Experience building scalable distributed systems.
• Strong communication for architectural trade-offs.
• Ability to adapt in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience applying AI to code security.
• Secure design principles are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Join the backend team to work on a distributed system with a monorepo architecture.
• Own core AppSec functionality from IDE to deployment.
• Advance AI code security solutions for customers.
• Improve API Gateway and API servers for robustness and scalability.
• Maintain diverse scan environments and build/toolchain support.
• Design and build tools used across teams to improve productivity.
• Champion observability to ensure reliability and availability.

Skills

Golang mastery

Microservices

Distributed architecture

Effective communication

Adaptability

AI-savvy

Security-aware design

Education

Bachelor’s in engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Lambda

Cloud-native tooling

Job description

Endor Labs, based in Palo Alto, CA, is seeking a senior backend engineer to help build a large-scale SaaS security platform in a hybrid setting. The role centers on a distributed monorepo backend and owning core features from IDE to deployment.

Applicants should have 8+ years in engineering, strong Golang skills, and experience with microservices, cloud-native tooling, and AI-assisted code security. We value autonomy, rigorous design, and clear architectural decisions.