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Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Content Processing)
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Lead / principal · Not stated
Level inferred from job title
Job description
An experienced software engineer role at Cyberhaven to design, build, and evolve scalable, reliable backend infrastructure for its data security platform, with a focus on distributed systems and high-throughput data pipelines.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Design, build, and evolve scalable distributed backend systems and high-throughput data processing pipelines.
- Develop reliable, high-performance services with a strong focus on concurrency, efficiency, and fault tolerance.
- Design and improve event-driven architectures, asynchronous workflows, and distributed coordination mechanisms.
- Solve complex engineering challenges involving consistency, retries, idempotency, deduplication, backpressure, and failure recovery.
- Make architectural decisions involving distributed storage, messaging systems, and data processing strategies.
- Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks, improving throughput, latency, resource utilization, and infrastructure cost efficiency.
- Drive architectural improvements and modernization of existing systems while maintaining production stability.
- Own critical services end-to-end, from technical design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and production operations.
- Lead technical design discussions, evaluate architectural trade-offs, and establish engineering best practices.
- Collaborate across engineering teams to define technical direction, develop platform capabilities, and solve complex cross-service challenges.
What we're looking for
- Strong software engineering experience designing, building, and operating complex production backend systems.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, concurrency, asynchronous processing, consistency, and fault tolerance.
- Strong proficiency in Go, or comparable backend programming experience with the ability to become productive in Go.
- Experience designing and operating systems using messaging technologies such as Kafka, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, or AWS SQS.
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About Cyberhaven
Data Security for the Agentic Enterprise
Cyberhaven traces the full lifecycle of your data, adapting protection to changing context, so protection moves with the way people actually work, not against it.
Key facts
- Backed by $250M from leading investors like Khosla and Redpoint
- Team includes leaders who built industry-defining technologies at CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Meta, Google, and more