Senior Backend Engineer, Admin Experience (Cybersecurity)

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

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

Company

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

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs for user access, account hierarchies, settings, roles, access controls, and audit logs.
• Own substantial features from technical design and implementation through testing, safe rollout, observability, and production support.
• Apply secure authorization and data-modeling practices to customer and parent-child account relationships.
• Investigate production issues and improve service reliability, performance, and observability.
• Write maintainable code, automated tests, design documentation, runbooks, and support guidance.
• Partner with Product, frontend engineers, and platform teams while mentoring teammates through design discussions and code reviews.

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 production software with a modern programming language.
• Experience designing and operating backend services and APIs and taking complex work from design through production.
• Strong SQL and relational database experience, including data modeling and debugging or improving queries.
• Experience building services on AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud platform and working with Docker or other containerized applications.
• Demonstrated focus on testing, production reliability, observability, clear technical communication, analytical problem-solving, and attention to detail.
• Ability to own complex work end to end, manage competing priorities, communicate risks and tradeoffs early, and collaborate effectively with Product and engineering partners.
• Experience with every listed language or framework is not required; depth in relevant areas and the ability to learn are important.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, RBAC, SSO, audit logs, delegated administration, or account hierarchy models.
• Experience with Python or Go, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.
• Familiarity with feature flags, metrics, tracing, alerting, Datadog, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience in cybersecurity or building customer-facing platform capabilities used by multiple customers.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with a collaborative, inclusive culture focused on respect, ownership, and results.
• Health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and families.
• Flexible vacation policy and generous parental leave.
• Career development opportunities in a growing cybersecurity company.
• Full-time roles are eligible for equity in the form of stock options.
• The company supports remote and hybrid models overall, including a Chicago office where some other roles require regular in-office presence.

Hiring process

• Applicants may redact age-identifying information, including age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation, without penalty.