Staff Engineer (Team Lead) — Security & Distributed Systems (8+ years)

Our team includes brilliant engineers and successful serial entrepreneurs passionate about improving how software is built and delivered, and we are looking for an experienced hands-on Staff Engineer to join our family. This individual’s mission will be to reduce friction in the engineering process to make the developer experience as pleasant as possible while maintaining high-quality standards, efficiency, and consistency. We would love to tell you more if you meet the requirements below.

Based in Bangalore, India

$95,000-100,000

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• 8+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in technical leadership or mentorship roles.
• Expertise in Golang — deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and idiomatic Go practices.
• Strong Linux fundamentals — you’re comfortable working close to the OS, with containers, namespaces, and process management.
• Security mindset: Familiarity with CVEs, security advisories, SBOMs, vulnerability management, and container hardening is highly preferred.
• Experience designing distributed, high-throughput microservices using message queues, caching layers, and scalable storage.
• Proven cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including compute, storage, and IAM fundamentals.
• Deep familiarity with Docker, containerd, and Kubernetes internals.
• Solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and system design.
• Prior experience mentoring engineers and driving large-scale technical initiatives.
• Bonus: Exposure to IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation) and modern DevSecOps practices.

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• Be the Technical Leader: Mentor engineers, drive design reviews, and foster a culture of clean, secure, and maintainable code.
• Architect for Scale: Design and evolve high-performance distributed systems that analyze and secure containerized workloads at scale.
• Go Deep with Security: Work on systems that handle CVEs, SBOMs, and vulnerability advisories across diverse Linux and container environments.
• Hands-on Coding: Write production-grade Golang code and perform deep-dive code reviews to ensure quality and resilience.
• Master Containers: Build and optimize systems that interact directly with Docker, containerd, and Kubernetes internals.
• Cloud-Native Architecture: Design and deploy microservices across AWS, Azure, or GCP — leveraging queues, caches, and scalable data stores.
• Drive Reliability: Ensure uptime and performance of distributed pipelines for image scanning, vulnerability correlation, and data aggregation.
• Collaborate & Influence: Partner closely with Product, Security Research, and Platform teams to deliver features that matter.
• Lead Execution: Translate product goals into technical roadmaps and deliver high-quality releases on time.

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