Backend Engineer at Endor Labs

This role is based out of Palo Alto California - Hybrid. If you are interested in helping to build a large-scale SaaS service at an early-stage company and the list below matches your background, we would love to talk to you!This role is based out of Palo Alto California - Hybrid. If you are interested in helping to build a large-scale SaaS service at an early-stage company and the list below matches your background, we would love to talk to you!

About Us

Endor Labs is building the Application Security platform for the software development revolution. Modern software is complex and dependency-rich, making it increasingly difficult to pinpoint the risks that truly matter. Endor Labs solves this challenge by building a call graph of your entire software estate—enabling teams to clearly identify, prioritize, and fix critical risks faster. 

Trusted by companies that are one or one hundred years old, Endor Labs secures code whether it was written by humans or AI, and whether it's 40-year old C++ code or cutting edge Bazel Monorepos. Endor Labs was founded by serial entrepreneurs Varun Badhwar and Dimitri Stiliadis, and is backed by leading VC firms such as Dell Technology Capital, Lightspeed, and Sierra Ventures.

Sound interesting? Let’s talk if you want to be part of the next big leap in security innovation!

How You'll Make an Impact

• Join Our Cutting-Edge Backend Team: Dive into the heart of innovation by working on a state-of-the-art distributed system with a sophisticated monorepo architecture.
• Own Core Libraries: Take charge of enhancing and maintaining Endor's crucial GoLang libraries, including gRPC/protobuf, OpenAPI, AuthN/AuthZ, Observability, and MongoDB. Your work will be foundational to our tech stack.
• Elevate Core Services: Drive the development and optimization of vital core services like our API Gateway and API servers, ensuring robust and scalable infrastructure.
• Innovate with Autonomy: Embrace the freedom to design and build top-tier tools that will be leveraged across all teams at Endor, making a significant impact on our operations.
• Support & Enhance Monorepo: Contribute to the evolution of Endor's polyglot monorepo using Bazel, improving our development workflow and efficiency.
• Advance CI Pipelines: Enhance and optimize our continuous integration (CI) pipeline to streamline and elevate the quality of our monorepo builds.
• Champion Observability: Apply best practices in observability to ensure our products and platforms achieve exceptional reliability and availability for our users.

What We're Looking For

• Engineering Expertise: Bring your Bachelor’s degree in engineering and over ~7 years of hands-on experience building scalable backends for product and SaaS companies to our innovative team.
• Golang Mastery: Showcase ~4 years of experience in Golang programming, with a deep focus on microservices and distributed architecture, to drive our cutting-edge solutions.
• API Design Skills: Demonstrate your practical experience in designing robust APIs using frameworks like gRPC (preferred), ReST, GraphQL, or Thrift, creating seamless and efficient integrations.
• Technical Solution Design: Prove your ability to architect and build technical solutions from the ground up, with your code and documentation setting the standard for best practices at Endor.
• Scalable Systems Savvy: Bring your experience with scalable distributed systems, including microservices, domain-driven design, load balancing, and scaling strategies (both horizontal and vertical), to tackle complex challenges.
• Architectural Acumen: Apply your knowledge of data structures and architectural design to build systems that scale effortlessly and adapt for long-term success. Use data-driven approaches to guide architectural decisions.
• Influential Communicator: Leverage your ability to discuss architectural trade-offs and guide teams towards the most effective solutions, ensuring alignment and forward momentum.
• Adaptable Innovator: Thrive in a fast-paced environment with shifting requirements, embracing change and finding creative solutions to new and unfamiliar problems.
• Problem-Solving Pro: Apply your practical experience in troubleshooting distributed systems to identify and resolve root causes, ensuring smooth and reliable operations.

Preferred Skills

• Master of Secure Design: Expertise in secure software design principles, including managing certificates, OAuth2/OIDC, and implementing secure changes.
• Cloud-Native Proficiency: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Lambda functions, or other cutting-edge cloud-native technologies.
• Security Savvy: Knowledge of security, fraud prevention, and anomaly detection to tackle real-world challenges and safeguard our systems with cutting-edge solutions.

What Makes Us... Us

• Go to extraordinary lengths to distinguish ourselves through world-class work.
• Prioritize quality over speed, and speed over scope.
• Desire to work with deeply kind, mission-driven people.
• Strive to make the complex simple.
• Use first principles to debate ideas, test assumptions, and make decisions.
• Seek the truth by putting data above opinions.
• Assume good intent and give tactical feedback to help each other get better.
• Hold no ego—when our customers win, we all win.

What We Offer You

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package including Health, Dental, Vision and Mental Health plans. 
• 401(k) plan to support your longterm financial goals.
• Flexible PTO to maintain a healthy work-life balance (we want you here for the long-haul!)
• Opportunities for co-working and team meetups to foster collaboration.
• A dog-friendly office environment for those who love to bring their fur babies along.

Endor Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Even if you don't fit every requirement above, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives and experiences, so we encourage all talented individuals to apply—there's no one-size-fits-all here.

Compensation

For candidates who receive an offer for this position, the compensation range is expected to be between $160,000 - $240,000.