Senior Backend Engineer - Security IAM (Remote, Equity)

Pomerium; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Salary + equity

Comprehensive health benefits

Generous paid time off

Learning budget and conferences

Job summary

Pomerium is seeking a senior backend engineer to strengthen security architecture and scale a distributed IAM platform. You will build robust Go or C++ services, ensure code quality, and work with relational data stores in a fully remote, async environment.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in Go or C++, experience with cloud providers, and strong communication skills to support a remote team across North America and Europe.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience with Go (Golang) or C++.
• Working knowledge of relational databases and production monitoring, alerting, and metrics.
• Hands-on familiarity with at least one major cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong written communication and a track record of effective remote collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Translate ambiguous security and platform requirements into robust, well-tested backend services.
• Champion code health through refactoring, reviews, design docs, and ongoing craftsmanship improvements.
• Write maintainable Go or C++ services that interact with relational data stores and IAM protocols.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to unblock work, with a bias toward async communication.
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and process improvements that help a remote team scale.

Skills

Go

C++

Relational databases

Cloud platforms

Remote collaboration

Tools

Envoy

gRPC

REST design

Kubernetes

Helm

Job description

Pomerium is seeking a senior backend engineer to strengthen security architecture and scale a distributed IAM platform. You will build robust Go or C++ services, ensure code quality, and work with relational data stores in a fully remote, async environment.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in Go or C++, experience with cloud providers, and strong communication skills to support a remote team across North America and Europe.