Praetorian

Backend Engineer

At Praetorian, our mission is to prevent breaches before they occur.
We deliver on that vision by hiring the top 1% of offensive security talent and empowering them to tackle the industry’s most complex security challenges.
Through red team engagements, sophisticated attack simulations, and Chariot—our fully managed continuous threat exposure management platform—we help organizations stay in control of their dynamic attack surfaces.
Design, build, and test backend software components in Go
Write clean and scalable code with automated tests
Backend engineers run the production systems
Provide technical leadership
End-to-end ownership on problems
High standard and level of output and work ethic
Agency in dealing with ambiguity
Personable individual who enjoys working in a team-oriented environment
Obsession with addressing customer problems

Senior Backend Software Engineer

• Prevent breaches before they occur by emulating real-world attackers and building Praetorian's Chariot offensive security platform
• Contribute to an AI-powered, planner-and-sub-agent architecture for automating complex, multi-stage attack chains
• Design, build, and test backend software components in Go
• Write clean and scalable code with automated tests
• Backend engineers run the production systems as a team
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers on architecture, craft, infrastructure, and operations
• Work in a modern stack: Golang, Kafka, GCP, Kubernetes, MariaDB
• Join a high-impact, hyper-growth company focused on offensive security and continuous learning

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Software Engineer, Backend