Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

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

Role overview

A senior backend engineering role on a security-focused identity and access management platform, contributing to systems that protect how organizations expose internal applications to distributed teams. The position centers on strengthening security architecture, raising code quality, and shaping a codebase that operates at significant production scale.

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.

Requirements

• Three or more 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.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering on a fully remote team.
• Familiarity with OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, and related identity and access management standards.
• Exposure to Envoy, gRPC, REST service design, Kubernetes, Helm, or other cloud-native tooling.

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote, distributed team with asynchronous work culture.
• Competitive compensation including salary and equity.
• Comprehensive health benefits and generous paid time off.
• Budget and encouragement for learning, training, and industry conferences.
• Open to candidates throughout the United States and across most of North America and Europe.