Senior Software Engineer - Secure, Scalable Systems Lead

EthicalHat Cyber Security Pvt. Ltd.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

EthicalHat Cyber Security Pvt. Ltd. is seeking an experienced software engineer to own substantial parts of production software from design through release and into operations.

The role covers back-end services and some front-end work, with a strong emphasis on security, reliability, and coaching other engineers. You will collaborate with product owners and clients to shape work, document architectural trade-offs, and guide delivery.

Qualifications

• 5–6 years of software engineering experience with production systems.
• Strong TypeScript with Node.js or Python; working knowledge of the other.
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and data models.
• Practical experience with a major cloud provider, containers, and infrastructure as code.
• Knowledge of application security, including web risks, authentication, authorization, and secrets management.
• Proven history writing tested code, improving delivery pipelines, mentoring engineers, and leading technical discussions with non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design features and services, documenting key decisions and architectural trade-offs.
• Build and maintain production software across back-end systems and front-end applications.
• Assess security threats during design and make secure choices throughout implementation.
• Review code, establish shared engineering practices, and mentor less experienced developers.
• Improve the performance, reliability, and observability of systems you own; participate in on-call and incident reviews.
• Set up reviewed, tested practices for AI-assisted development and work with stakeholders to clarify scope and delivery plans.

Skills

Distributed systems design

APIs design

Data models

Application security

Mentoring engineers

Leading technical discussions

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

Cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Containers (Docker)

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CFN)

CI/CD pipelines

Secrets management

Security tooling

Job description

EthicalHat Cyber Security Pvt. Ltd. is seeking an experienced software engineer to own substantial parts of production software from design through release and into operations.

The role covers back-end services and some front-end work, with a strong emphasis on security, reliability, and coaching other engineers. You will collaborate with product owners and clients to shape work, document architectural trade-offs, and guide delivery.