Backend Engineer

Metantz — United States · Posted ~2 hours ago

Senior

Skills

Backend systems Distributed systems Go AWS Okta APIs Identity systems

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

An early-stage technology organization is seeking a backend engineer to own a major technical surface area from day one. You will build backend systems that model users, agents, resources, and actions; develop integrations with identity and cloud infrastructure; and create policy and audit APIs capable of making decisions in milliseconds. Strong experience building and operating production backend systems is required, with Go expertise particularly relevant.

Highlights

High-ownership backend opportunity at an early-stage environment focused on enterprise security and AI agents. The role offers significant product ownership from day one, work on real customer-facing systems, and the chance to build identity, policy, integration, and audit infrastructure for a new technical category.

Description

Seed-stage Enterprise Security AI Agents AI agents are starting to take real actions inside companies — calling APIs, touching production data, executing workflows. Security teams have no way to see what they`re doing, let alone control it. We`re building the runtime that sits between agents and the systems they touch — and helping define a new category in the process. What you`ll build You`ll own a major surface area from day one The entity graph — a real-time model of every user, agent, resource, and action across a customer`s environmentThe integrations layer that keeps it in sync with Okta, AWS, and the rest of the identity and cloud stackThe policy and audit APIs that decide, in milliseconds, whether an agent gets to make a call — and prove it later A policy engine is only as good as the world model it reasons over, so we`re building both. Your code ships to paying customers, not a demo. You Have built and operated backend systems that real customers depended onStrong in Go or Python or JavaComfortable designing data models under ambiguity — graph experience is a plusTurn vague problems into simple, reliable systems Bonus background in security, identity, or infrastructure; experience with agents or tool-calling systems. Us Repeat founders, previously in leadership at Lacework and ShiftRight. Backed by tier-1 investors. Small team shipping the first version now. Comp & logistics $170–200K base meaningful founding-team equity San Jose Hybrid