Senior C++/Go Engineer - Web Security at Scale (Remote)

AVP; United States; Remote; USD 79,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first team

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

Blackwall is an AI-enabled security and web infrastructure company delivering protection for web ecosystems across Europe. We are expanding our engineering team for a Software Engineer (C++/Go) to design and build next-generation security products and open-source components.

You will work across the full development lifecycle, from design to deployment, in a fast-moving, collaborative environment. Prior work in startups and remote collaboration are valued as we scale.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional C/C++ software development experience.
• Low-level and systems/network programming expertise.
• Experience with web security.
• Experience with SQL.
• Working knowledge of Go (a strong plus).
• Experience with PHP/XML/HTML/CSS (a plus).
• Curiosity, enthusiasm, and a strong desire to learn and improve.
• Solid time management and asynchronous communication skills for remote-first collaboration.
• Bonus points for experience working in start-up environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop integration modules for web servers such as Nginx and Apache, and patch/extend open-source libraries and tools.
• Implement new functions in our bot detection engine written in C++.
• Design and build new networking and web security products.
• Contribute to web development where needed (site engine is partially powered by C++).

Skills

C/C++

Systems programming

Web security

SQL

Go

PHP/XML/HTML/CSS

Remote collaboration

Tools

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

Clickhouse

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Nginx

Apache

Job description

Blackwall is an AI-enabled security and web infrastructure company delivering protection for web ecosystems across Europe. We are expanding our engineering team for a Software Engineer (C++/Go) to design and build next-generation security products and open-source components.

You will work across the full development lifecycle, from design to deployment, in a fast-moving, collaborative environment. Prior work in startups and remote collaboration are valued as we scale.