Backend Software Engineer

AI Talent Hunt looking for client: Software Engineer, Backend (Early-to-mid Career) Company:Anzenna Job Description Software Engineer, Backend (Early-to-mid Career) Anzenna Salary: $140K - $180K Hybrid work policy: 3 days in-office in Redwood City, CA. Remote is not an option. Equity: Competitive equity Visa sponsorship details: Not open to any visas (e.g. US citizen, Green Card holders) Additional visa sponsorship details: No Location: Bay Area About this role Anzenna (security startup, Redwood City) is hiring a junior backend Software Engineer who wants real customer impact, not just backlog tickets. You'll build integrations and custom detections in Go/Python/TypeScript, work directly with customer security teams during onboarding, and fold what you learn back into the platform. This is a real engineering role: not pre-sales, and not a live-at-the-customer FDE gig. Great fit for an early-career engineer who wants ownership and customer exposure, or a security analyst who codes and wants to move into engineering. Direct access to both co-founders. Why candidates should join Top-of-market pay for the level: $140K - $180K + Competitive equity (base + equity higher for exceptional candidates). Hybrid, real balance: 3 days/week in Redwood City, 2 remote. Customer exposure without living on-site. Real engineering, not pre-sales: ship integrations and custom detections in Go/Python/TypeScript to production from month one. Not ticket triage, not demos. Your work moves the product in days: what you hear on a customer call becomes a merged PR the same week. Learn directly from operators: founding team shipped security products at Google, Atlassian, Yahoo, and Microsoft; backed by 8VC. You work with both co-founders, not through layers. Hot wedge, real depth: insider risk + AI agents running investigations, 100+ enterprise integrations (Okta, CrowdStrike, Slack), and a rare on-ramp for security analysts to cross into a true engineering seat Requirements Seniority Required: 1 - 4 years of experience backend-leaning engineering Work experience Must have: Junior software engineer (startup preferred) who has worked directly with customers — or shows strong evidence they want customer-facing work Required: Must mention security in the resume - either interest / experience. It cannot be empty words. Alternately: security analyst (SOC, insider threat, DLP, IAM) who codes, with hands-on scripting/automation on the job, looking to move into engineering Nice to have: Customer-facing technical role at a security vendor — Customer Success Engineer, Solutions Engineer/Architect, Support or Deployment Engineer Hard skills Must have: Writes real code in at least one of Go, Python, or TypeScript — enough to build a script or debug an integration. Fast learner or strong foundation both pass. Soft skills Must have: Fluent spoken English. The role involves constant direct customer conversations and live analysis of their use cases. Required: Speaks with structure and a point. Gets to the answer without looping. Doesn't fill air when they don't know. When probed, they either have a substantive take or say "I don't know", not both dressed up as one. Miscellaneous Required: Bay Area, hybrid. Occasional customer-site travel — this is not a live-at-the-customer FDE role Traits to avoid Avoid: Pure IC engineer with no customer exposure and no interest in getting some Avoid: Non-technical Customer Success Manager or career pre-sales with no shipped code Avoid: Senior FDE profiles - this a junior role Avoid: Blanket answer on why they want to join Anzenna. Answers like "Wants impact, high agency, ownership " reads the same for joining EVERY company in the planet. We prefer either not seeing this mentioned, or there is a reason specific to Anzenna. A generic answer is worse than not having an answer. Job Overview Location Bay Area ( 3 days in-office in Redwood City, CA. Remote is not an option) Job Type Full-time Salary Range $140K - $180K