Senior Backend Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: US, Remote; up to 5% travel may be required.

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

Company

hirify.global is a remote cybersecurity company developing NodeZero, a platform for production-safe autonomous penetration tests and security assessments.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain services and APIs for customer purchases, product packaging, enabled capabilities, and usage limits.
• Own features from technical design through implementation, testing, rollout, and production operation.
• Build entitlement and usage workflows for direct and MSP/MSP partner account models.
• Collaborate with Product and adjacent engineering teams to define interfaces and resolve licensing, packaging, and feature-access edge cases.
• Improve testing, observability, documentation, runbooks, and support playbooks for business-critical services.
• Investigate cross-service production issues, implement durable fixes, review designs and code, and share technical context.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend software.
• Experience with a modern backend language such as Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript.
• Experience designing APIs and data models for business-critical services or customer-facing workflows.
• Strong SQL and relational database experience, including data integrity and production troubleshooting.
• Experience with cloud-hosted services and containerized applications such as Docker; familiarity with Kubernetes or a comparable orchestrator.
• Strong foundation in testing, observability, and ownership of production services.
• Ability to reason through edge cases, communicate implementation risks and tradeoffs, manage concurrent work, and collaborate effectively with Product and engineering partners.

Nice to have

• Experience with licensing, entitlements, subscriptions, usage metering, billing-adjacent workflows, or feature access controls.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, account hierarchies, RBAC, or partner account models.
• Experience with Python or Go, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, AWS, and event-driven or distributed systems.
• Familiarity with Kafka or other event-streaming systems, Temporal or Prefect, and production observability platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with up to 5% travel; the company also supports hybrid work for some roles and has a Chicago office.
• Inclusive, collaborative culture focused on respect, ownership, creativity, and results.
• Health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and families.
• Flexible vacation policy, generous parental leave, professional growth opportunities, and equity for all full-time roles.

Hiring process

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