Backend Engineer
Clerkie
Software Engineer – Research Engineer, Backend
XBOW
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $150,000 - $350,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoKotlinPostgresTerraformTypeScript
About the role
- Design and build distributed backend systems that scale reliably and securely
- Work in TypeScript, Kotlin and Go (and pick them up quickly if you haven’t used them before)
- Deploy and operate services in AWS and other cloud providers.
- Own problems end-to-end—from design through deployment to production support
- Navigate ambiguity and help define *how* we build as much as *what* we build
- Collaborate closely with teammates across the stack, including AI researchers, Security researchers and frontend engineers
Requirements
- Experience building and operating scalable, distributed systems
- Comfort working in a fast-moving, early-stage environment
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work with incomplete information
- Familiarity with AWS or similar cloud platforms
- You’re comfortable working with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform or CDK) and see infra as part of the engineering system—not something separate from it.
- Eager to learn new tools, languages, and technologies as needed
- A thoughtful communicator who values clarity and simplicity
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment
- Experience with event-driven architectures, message queues, or async workflows
- Experience designing and optimizing relational databases (we use Postgres), and you know how to structure data for both performance and clarity.
- Background in systems programming, networking, or performance tuning
- Experience with hybrid deployments (cloud + on-prem) and know how to build resilient systems that handle the complexity of mixed environments.
- Experience working in an early stage startup
- Prior experience building security products or products for technical users
Benefits
- Competitive salary and a generous equity package, making you a true owner of the company.
- Shape your role, lead the function, and grow with the company as we redefine cybersecurity.
- You will tackle technically complex challenges and play a pivotal role in the growth of our business, working alongside an amazing team and some of the world’s experts to shape how AI transforms cybersecurity.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
TypeScriptKotlinGoAWSTerraformCDKevent-driven architecturesmessage queuesasync workflowsPostgres
Soft skills
problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationadaptabilityclaritysimplicity
