Golang developer (offline)

About the client

Our client is a security startup on a mission to stop large and small data leaks, especially those caused by careless or malicious insiders. They've got first-of-a-kind technology that sees through everything insiders could do to steal the data, detecting data exfiltration and providing precise human-readable explanation of what has happened and how. Our tech is formerly sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defenses DARPA agency and the Swiss government. We're working with some of the largest companies in the world to help them stop leaks ranging from innocuous product specs leaks to the press, to serious industrial espionage.

Responsibilities

We're looking for an experienced backend developer to help drive and evolve our product. Our technology is new and rapidly evolving, and you'll have a chance to be an early contributor with a substantial impact on the product architecture. You will be solving multiple exciting technical challenges, including:

-Design and optimize a large-scale, highly scalable, and fault-tolerant system that handles large graph datasets at enterprise scale in realtime. Instances of our product are processing billions of events from tens of thousands of endpoints in real-time with subsecond latency requirements
-Solve real-world scaling problems that require thorough performance analysis and troubleshooting skills
-Work with a modern and constantly evolving microservices-based software stack which includes Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Elasticsearch, Redis, Etcd
-Write secure-by-design hardened software that must withstand real-world attacks, while processing untrusted data and communicating with tens of thousands of endpoints over the internet
-Architect and implement client's SaaS sensors for the SaaS applications that are most commonly used in the enterprise (e.g., Box, Office365, Workday, Dropbox, etc.)

Requirements

-Strong track record in building backends that are actively used at scale
2+ years of experience with Go, or with another backend-focused language -and willingness to quickly learn Go
-Experience with using Elasticsearch or a similar NoSQL DB at a large scale
-Experience with profiling and optimizing large distributed databases
-Experience in building connectors that integrate at API level with SaaS applications commonly used in the enterprise
-Hands-on experience with microservices and Kubernetes
-Experience with agile development and SCRUM
-Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
-Availability to frequently communicate with distributed engineering team in ---Central European and US Eastern time zones

What you can count on

Competitive salary
Equity grants get your part of the success of the company
Excellent benefits such as private health insurance
Opportunities to learn and grow professionally
English classes
Flexible schedule
Great office space and support to make sure you can comfortably work from either home or the office, depending on your preference