Principal/ Sr Principal Backend Engineer

Who We Are Endor Labs is building the Application Security platform for the software development revolution. Modern software is complex and dependency-rich, making it increasingly difficult to pinpoint the risks that truly matter. Endor Labs solves this challenge by building a call graph of your entire software estate—enabling teams to clearly identify, prioritize, and fix critical risks faster. Trusted by companies that are one or one hundred years old, Endor Labs secures code whether it was written by humans or AI, and whether it's 40-year old C++ code or cutting edge Bazel Monorepos. Endor Labs was founded by serial entrepreneurs Varun Badhwar and Dimitri Stiliadis, and is backed by leading VC firms such as Dell Technology Capital, Lightspeed, and Sierra Ventures. Sound interesting? Let's talk if you want to be part of the next big leap in security innovation!

How You'll Make an Impact

• You will play a pivotal role in architecting and building the core backend infrastructure for our SaaS products.
• You will lead and contribute to large-scale technical projects, ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of our systems.
• Design, architect, and build features end-to-end while working closely with Product Management, and our distributed Engineering team
• Play a significant role in driving innovation, making critical architectural decisions, and leading the implementation of cutting-edge technologies.
• We encourage and support active participation in external technical forums, conferences, and open-source communities, allowing you to contribute to the broader tech community and stay at the forefront of industry trends.
• Mentor and coach team members by sharing your expertise, and promoting best practices within the team to foster a culture of continuous learning and growth.

What You Bring to the Table If you are interested in helping to define and build a product and culture at an early-stage company, and the list below matches your background, we would love to talk to you!

• Bachelor's degree in engineering with at least 18+ years of experience building scalable backends for product/SaaS companies, with a strong track record of leading and delivering complex technical projects.
• Proficiency in Golang is strongly preferred; experience with other modern backend languages, microservices/distributed architecture, and frameworks is a plus.
• Practical experience in designing APIs with one or more frameworks (gRPC [preferred], ReST, GraphQL, Thrift, etc.).
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills, and effective communication and leadership abilities are a must.
• Scalable Distributed System Experience - understand micro-services and domain-driven design, load balancing, horizontal/vertical scaling, and stateless architectures.
• Architecture - knowledge of data structures and a keen eye for building architectures that scale and extend easily for longevity. Apply data-driven techniques to evaluate and propose architectural choices.
• Ability to discuss tradeoffs between architecture's choice to influence groups to move in the right direction.
• Able to enjoy working in a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and independently when in uncharted or unfamiliar territory.
• Practical experience in troubleshooting distributed systems and ability to solve root causes.

Why Endor Labs We're building at the intersection of developer productivity and security — one of the fastest-growing spaces in software. Our dev-loved platform has real ROI, strong momentum, and customers who care about doing things right. At Endor Labs, we think big, start small, and learn fast. We take ownership, move with purpose, and always start with the customer's success. We debate with data, make the complex simple, and challenge each other with kindness and candor. We celebrate wins, learn from misses, and have fun along the way — because when our customers win, we all win.

Endor Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Even if you don't fit every requirement above, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives and experiences, so we encourage all talented individuals to apply—there's no one-size-fits-all here.