# Principal Backend Software Engineer at Endor Labs

- Company: Endor Labs
- What the company does: Backed by Lightspeed.
- Company website: http://faction.vc/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Palo Alto, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $220K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/endorlabs/jobs/4684849005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/endor-labs-principal-backend-software-engineer/

## About the role

We are looking for a Principal Member of Technical Staff to join our engineering organization as a cross-cutting technical leader. This is a pure individual contributor role with significant architectural influence. You will work across teams to tackle our hardest backend scaling, reliability, and security product challenges.

## What they're looking for

- 15+ years of software engineering experience with a strong backend focus. You have designed and built distributed systems, microservices architectures, and async workload processing at scale
- Security product expertise. You have built or architected application security products before. Deep familiarity with AppSec, DevSecOps, or software supply chain security is strongly preferred
- Strong product sense. You understand how to build SaaS products that are performant, reliable, and solve real customer problems. You think beyond the code to the user experience and business impact
- Proficiency in Go with production experience in Kubernetes, MongoDB, and/or PostgreSQL. Familiarity with React on the frontend is a plus
- Technical leadership at scale. You have set technical direction for engineering organizations, driven architecture decisions, and worked effectively with and through other senior technical leaders
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills. You can motivate engineers, build consensus on technical approaches, and clearly articulate complex trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Tags: Engineering