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Backend Engineer

Cylake · Sunnyvale · On-site

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About Cylake

Cylake is the complete, AI-native cybersecurity platform that provides full visibility, sets fine-grained policy, and stops attacks in fully air-gapped sovereign environments. Backed by Greylock and Lightspeed.

About the role

Join a small team building the next generation of cybersecurity products from the ground up. Led by industry veterans with a proven track record of success - you will get to architect, build, and deliver hugely impactful products with this world-class team. You will have the opportunity to grow your career and skills along with the company from the very start.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience as a backend or full-stack engineer
  • Strong proficiency in a subset of modern backend programming languages (Go, Python, Node.js, Rust, etc.)
  • Deep understanding of database technologies, their performance characteristics, and use cases
  • Proven experience designing, building, and securing modern RESTful or gRPC-based APIs for highly available systems
  • Experience with Policy Engines and policy-as-code frameworks
  • Strong understanding of security and secret storage technologies
More about this role

Join a small team building the next generation of cybersecurity products from the ground up. Led by industry veterans with a proven track record of success - you will get to architect, build, and deliver hugely impactful products with this world-class team. You will have the opportunity to grow your career and skills along with the company from the very start.

You will be responsible for designing and building the management layer for a distributed embedded system. This includes designing the policy structure, configuration storage and reliability, secret management, and engines that enable these capabilities. This will allow you to build a performant and robust system from the ground up, having a direct impact on the success of the product line.

5+ years of experience as a backend or full-stack engineer

Strong proficiency in a subset of modern backend programming languages (Go, Python, Node.js, Rust, etc.)

Deep understanding of database technologies, their performance characteristics, and use cases

Proven experience designing, building, and securing modern RESTful or gRPC-based APIs for highly available systems

Experience with Policy Engines and policy-as-code frameworks

Strong...

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