Backend Engineer (all genders) - Remote Germany

• Strong backend engineering experience in a compiled, statically typed language. We build in Go, so you are either already a Go engineer or someone who will get into it quickly.
• You know SQL well and think naturally in relational and columnar data models. It’s central to how our engine works.
• A product mindset. You care about the user and the problem, not only the ticket, and you have opinions about what to build, not just how.
• A problem-to-solution instinct. You can take an ambiguous problem, find the simple core, and ship something that solves it.
• End-to-end ownership. You own a problem from design through production and operation, and you see the hard parts through.
• Hands-on experience operating and running at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure). Not just deploying to it, actually running it: access management, networking or the failure modes.
• Hands-on with Terraform or Pulumi, and an understanding of how infrastructure-as-code actually behaves in practice.
• You build with AI coding tools as a normal part of your workflow and have a point of view on where they help and where they don't. We build guardrails for these tools, so we want engineers with deep, hands-on experience in agentic development.
• Background in cloud or cyber security, CSPM, CNAPP, or compliance (e.g. SOC 2, PCI, ISO 27001, GDPR).
• Experience building policy or rule engines.
• Experience with high-availability, scaling, and eventually-consistent, event-driven system design.
• Production experience running Kubernetes clusters.
• Early-stage startup experience, or having been a founding engineer before.

How we work

We are remote across Europe and hire anywhere within roughly two hours of Central European Time (CEST). We get the whole team together in person somewhere in Europe once a quarter for a few days. We work async by default, write things down, and protect people's focus time.