Senior Backend Engineer

Obsidian Security
Manchester
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5-7 yearsSkills: ["Teamwork","Adaptability","Collaboration","Code review","Systems thinking"]

Build and evolve backend processing systems that power a SaaS security platform. Design and implement APIs and backend services, including multithreaded applications, while improving performance, resilience, and scalability. Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to deliver high-impact features, applying strong engineering practices across requirements gathering, system design, and code reviews in a fast-moving environment.

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Obsidian Security
Obsidian Security
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Senior Backend Engineer

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Job Summary

Build and evolve backend processing systems that power a SaaS security platform. Design and implement APIs and backend services, including multithreaded applications, while improving performance, resilience, and scalability. Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to deliver high-impact features, applying strong engineering practices across requirements gathering, system design, and code reviews in a fast-moving environment.
Location: Manchester
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build new backend processing systems that power the core product.
  • •Maintain, improve, and evolve existing systems for performance, resilience, and scalability.
  • •Design and implement APIs and backend services, including multithreaded applications.
  • •Collaborate with product and engineering teams to support product themes and deliver high-impact features.
  • •Apply strong engineering practices across requirements gathering, system design, and code reviews.

Key Requirements

  • •5-7 years of experience in a software engineering role.
  • •Proficiency in modern programming languages such as Python, Go, or SQL.
  • •Experience building backend services, APIs, and multithreaded applications.
  • •Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • •Strong knowledge of relational databases (e.g., Postgres) and collaboration in team environments.
Experience:5-7 years
Skills:TeamworkAdaptabilityCollaborationCode reviewSystems thinking
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonGoSQLAPIsDockerKubernetesPostgresAWSGCPS3KafkaRedisGitGitLab CI/CDGrafanaPrometheusLLMsEmbeddingsVector databasesInference

Company Brief

Obsidian Security
Provides cloud-native security solutions that detect and respond to identity- and configuration-based threats across SaaS, IaaS, and cloud identity platforms. Focuses on discovering risky exposures, prioritizing alerts, and enabling remediation for enterprise cloud environments.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
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