Staff Backend Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Establish the technical direction and architecture for backend systems that support NodeZero's internal pentesting capabilities.

• Oversee backend projects from the definition of problems and design to delivery and operational production.

• Create dependable processing workflows for extensive, long-term internal assessments and data workloads.

• Optimize processing and data-access patterns for concurrent workloads while ensuring visibility into progress, failures, and throughput.

• Develop and manage high-throughput ETL pipelines that convert attack-team knowledge graph outputs into searchable relational datasets.

• Direct attack-path data models and presentation layers to ensure accurate results for customers.

• Analyze, optimize, and refactor intricate SQL queries.

• Define and advance GraphQL and graph-based API patterns.

• Maintain operational health, observability, uptime, scalability, release readiness, and on-call response.

• Influence architectural decisions across teams and produce design documentation.

• Align backend investments with product priorities while communicating risks, dependencies, and alternatives.

• Mentor and support engineers through design conversations, code reviews, and technical advice.

• Collaborate with frontend engineers, product managers, and designers to create responsive user experiences.

• Some travel (up to 5%) may be required.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Over 8 years of professional experience in software engineering utilizing modern object-oriented or functional programming languages.

• Proven technical leadership on complex backend or data-platform projects.

• Experience in designing, building, and operating large-scale production data-processing, ETL, or distributed task-processing systems.

• Practical experience with backend APIs, relational data models, and SQL within production environments.

• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Proficiency in using Docker.

• Knowledge of Python, SQLAlchemy, versioned migrations, uv, ruff, mypy, and pytest.

• Experience with orchestration engines like Temporal, Prefect, Airflow, Celery, or similar technologies.

• Background in GraphQL backends and graph databases such as Neo4j.

• Experience with observability tools, including Datadog, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.

• Knowledge in deploying containerized services in Kubernetes-based production settings.

• Familiarity with cybersecurity or internal attack scenarios, identity management, privilege escalation, and vulnerability data.

• Strong skills in technical writing.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Must possess legal authorization to work in the United States; applications will inquire if sponsorship is needed.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity package in the form of stock options available for all full-time positions.

• Health, vision, and dental insurance coverage for you and your family.

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Generous parental leave.

• Opportunities for career development.

• An inclusive culture.

• A collaborative environment that encourages creativity and innovative thinking.

• Options for remote and hybrid work models based on role and location.