Senior Software Engineer (Cloud API)

The role

You will design and build scalable backend systems to protect enterprise data across cloud environments, SaaS applications, and AI agents. You will work with a microservices-based stack to develop security capabilities and optimize distributed services.

What you will do

• Design and build highly scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant backend systems.
• Develop security capabilities for AI agent data access and control.
• Build and optimize distributed services for large volumes of data.
• Work with a microservices-based stack including Go, Kubernetes, Bigtable, BigQuery, Spanner, Redis, and Docker.
• Write secure, production-ready code.
• Troubleshoot complex performance and scalability challenges.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on technical design and architecture decisions.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building scalable backend systems and distributed applications.
• Experience developing cloud-native or SaaS applications.
• Experience with AI agents, agentic applications, or AI security, including familiarity with agent frameworks, tool calling, or MCP.
• Experience integrating and ingesting large-scale data from third-party SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS APIs.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, Java, or Rust.
• Hands-on experience with microservices, RESTful APIs, Kubernetes, and public cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with distributed databases such as Bigtable, BigQuery, Spanner, Redis, or graph databases.
• Strong debugging, performance optimization, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to independently own and deliver technical solutions.
• Effective communication and collaboration with distributed teams.

Nice to have

• Experience in security or data protection.
• Go preferred.

About the company

Cyberhaven is building Data Security for the Agentic Enterprise. The team is backed by $250M from investors like Khosla and Redpoint.