Senior Backend Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Remote within the United States; only US persons may interview, and eligibility for a US Federal Security Clearance is required. Up to 5% travel may be required.

Base salary: $199,750–$235,000 annually, plus an equity package in the form of stock options.

Company

hirify.global is a remote cybersecurity product company developing the NodeZero platform for production-safe autonomous penetration testing and security assessment operations.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain features in the core Python API for external pentesting capabilities.
• Build and operate workflow orchestration for large-scale, long-running, concurrent workloads, including scheduling, retries, idempotency, state management, visibility, and failure recovery.
• Develop high-throughput data processing and ETL pipelines, datalake architecture on AWS, GraphQL and graph-based APIs, and related queryable datasets.
• Deploy and manage services on Kubernetes, contributing to cluster operations, release management, capacity planning, and cloud infrastructure.
• Own performance, scalability, observability, uptime, metrics, tracing, alerting, on-call participation, and production stability.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and designers on user-facing launches, data presentation, architecture decisions, and design documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience using modern object-oriented or functional languages such as Python, Java, Go, Scala, C++, or TypeScript.
• Experience building and running workflow orchestration or distributed task-processing systems in production, such as Prefect, Temporal, Airflow, Celery, or similar.
• Hands-on experience designing and building high-throughput data processing systems and ETL pipelines.
• Experience building applications on cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, using container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Ability to manage concurrent initiatives, prioritize effectively, work independently and collaboratively, and communicate clearly.
• Reliability mindset for distributed work, including designing for retries, partial failure, recovery, and systematic debugging of asynchronous systems.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, technical writing, and attention-to-detail skills, with an operational ownership mindset.
• Only US persons may interview; eligibility for and successful completion of a US Federal Security Clearance is a condition of employment.

Nice to have

• Deep Kubernetes experience, including deployment and cluster management and troubleshooting production workloads.
• Experience with durable-execution or workflow engines such as Temporal or Prefect, including resilient, observable, and evolvable workflows.
• Experience building GraphQL backends and working with graph databases.
• Experience owning observability, uptime, and scalability for production systems using tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
• Systems engineering and architecture experience with datalakes and related cloud services.
• Experience building platform capabilities or internal tooling used by other engineering teams.
• Experience in cybersecurity or with attack surface and vulnerability data.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with a collaborative, respectful, ownership-oriented, and results-focused culture.
• Hybrid and remote work models vary by role and location; some roles require regular presence at the Chicago office.
• Health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and families.
• Flexible vacation policy and generous parental leave.
• Career development opportunities and an inclusive workplace focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Full-time roles are eligible for equity in the form of stock options.