Principal Backend Engineer – Cybersecurity
Janea Systems
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Own the cloud platform architecture end-to-end, including design, scalability, and reliability
- Design and implement low-latency real-time detection pipelines (client → cloud → response)
- Build and maintain data ingestion and processing systems ensuring high data quality and clean interfaces with ML systems
- Develop admin and control-plane backends, including internal tooling and customer-facing APIs (multi-tenant, RBAC, auditability)
- Design and enforce privacy-first systems, ensuring sensitive data is processed securely without unnecessary storage
- Own platform infrastructure, including Azure cloud architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code
- Establish observability, reliability standards, and system health monitoring
- Design and enforce end-to-end security, including platform hardening and supply chain security
Requirements
- Strong experience designing distributed backend systems
- Deep familiarity with cloud platforms (preferably Microsoft Azure)
- Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL and Redis
- Experience building data pipelines or real-time processing systems
- Strong understanding of security and privacy in system design
- Ability to own architecture end-to-end with minimal oversight
- Experience in cybersecurity or privacy-sensitive products
- Familiarity with ML/AI systems (supporting, not necessarily building models)
- Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS platforms
- Exposure to streaming systems or event-driven architectures
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with benefits, paid vacation, and sick leave.
- The opportunity to work with a globally diverse team of top Engineering talent on the industry’s toughest Engineering challenges.
- Ultra-flexible working conditions – we provide a generous office equipment allowance so you can work from home. We can also provide you with a desk at an office/coworking facility near you or use both. No business travel necessary.
- An enjoyable, start-up work environment, with excellent opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Flexible working hours – as a remote-first company, our focus has always been on getting the job done well, not when or where it gets done.
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud platform architecturelow-latency detection pipelinesdata ingestion systemsdata processing systemsadmin backendscontrol-plane backendsAPIsInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD pipelinesdistributed backend systems
Soft Skills
ownershipminimal oversightdesign enforcementsystem health monitoring