Senior Backend Engineer — Scalable Cybersecurity (Hybrid, Hanover)

Hornetsecurity; United States; Hybrid; CAD 142,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Room for innovation and autonomy

Employee Exchange Program

Flexible working hours

Permanent contracts

Team events and wellness benefits

Referral Bonus (€1500)

Private health insurance

Job summary

Hornetsecurity in Hanover seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to own and evolve backend services powering our cybersecurity products. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable software, mentor junior developers, and lead architectural decisions across multiple products in a distributed systems environment.

This full-time hybrid role offers ownership, performance and security focus, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and opportunities to work with Elasticsearch, Redis, SQL databases,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional backend development experience.
• Strong Python; Java or Go is a plus.
• Experience with distributed systems and databases (Elasticsearch/Redis/SQL).
• Fluent in English and comfortable in UNIX/Linux environments.

Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of existing and new applications or services within our cybersecurity product ecosystem.
• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable, and maintainable software solutions.
• Lead and contribute to architectural decisions and help shape long-term technical direction.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other developers, product management, system engineers, UX/UI, and QA teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Mentor and support Junior Developers, fostering best practices and continuous improvement.
• Work across multiple products, contributing to new features, improvements, and long-term maintenance.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Distributed systems

Linux

Databases

Elasticsearch

Redis

English

Ownership

Tools

Elasticsearch

SQL databases

Redis

Job description

Hornetsecurity in Hanover seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to own and evolve backend services powering our cybersecurity products. You will design, develop, and maintain scalable software, mentor junior developers, and lead architectural decisions across multiple products in a distributed systems environment.

This full-time hybrid role offers ownership, performance and security focus, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and opportunities to work with Elasticsearch, Redis, SQL databases,