Senior/ Staff Software Engineer (Content Processing)

The role

You will design, build, and evolve scalable, reliable backend infrastructure for a data security platform. The role involves working on distributed systems, high-throughput data pipelines, and cloud-native infrastructure.

What you will do

• Design, build, and evolve scalable distributed backend systems and high-throughput data processing pipelines.
• Develop reliable, high-performance services with a 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.
• Drive architectural improvements and modernization of existing systems.
• Own critical services end-to-end from design to production operations.
• Lead technical design discussions and establish engineering best practices.
• Collaborate across engineering teams to define technical direction and solve cross-service challenges.

Required qualifications

• 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.

About the company

Cyberhaven builds Data Security for the Agentic Enterprise by tracing the full lifecycle of data. The team is backed by $250M from investors like Khosla and Redpoint.