Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer Company Name: Spektion Job Url: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=4370771012&distance=25.0&f_TPR=r86400&f_WT=2&geoId=103644278&keywords=software%20engineer&origin=JOB_SEARCH_PAGE_JOB_FILTER&start=525 Job Description: Spektion Share Show more options Senior Backend Engineer  United States · Reposted 7 minutes ago · 30 applicants Promoted by hirer · Actively reviewing applicants Up to $200K/yr Remote Matches your job preferences, workplace type is Remote. Full-time Matches your job preferences, job type is Full-time. Easy Apply Save Save Senior Backend Engineer  at Spektion Senior Backend Engineer Spektion · United States (Remote) Easy Apply Save Save Senior Backend Engineer  at Spektion Show more options Your profile is missing required qualifications Show match details Help me update my profile BETA Is this information helpful? Get personalized tips to stand out to hirers Find jobs where you’re a top applicant and tailor your resume with the help of AI. Try Premium for PKR0 Meet the hiring team Jоsh Skorich Jоsh Skorich 3rd Founder | Product Builder Job poster Message About the job About Spektion Spektion is a cybersecurity startup building the next generation of runtime vulnerability management. We identify exploitable vulnerabilities at runtime before they enter the CVE process, giving security teams actionable intelligence instead of endless scanner noise. Our cross-platform sensors monitor API calls across Windows, macOS, and Linux to detect real exploitation attempts and risky behaviors in production environments. The Role We're looking for a senior backend engineer to work on our event processing pipeline and detection infrastructure. Our sensors generate millions of security events per day that need to be ingested, correlated, analyzed, and turned into actionable detections. You'll build the distributed systems that make sense of this firehose of runtime data, working at the intersection of high-throughput data processing and security intelligence. What You'll Do Build and optimize our event ingestion pipeline handling millions of events from distributed sensors Design detection rules and correlation logic that identify exploitation patterns across event streams Develop ClickHouse schemas and queries optimized for security event analysis and threat hunting Implement gRPC services for sensor communication and internal microservices Work on Kafka-style message processing for reliable event delivery and processing Build APIs and tooling for security analysts to query and investigate runtime detections Optimize system performance and resource utilization as data volumes scale What We're Looking For 5+ years of backend development experience building distributed systems Strong Go proficiency, you've shipped production Go services at scale Experience with high-throughput message systems (Kafka, Redpanda, NATS, Pulsar) ClickHouse or similar columnar database experience (Druid, TimescaleDB, BigQuery) Deep understanding of gRPC, protocol buffers, and service-to-service communication Track record of optimizing performance in data-intensive applications Comfort working with security concepts and detection logic Nice to Have Background in security tooling, SIEM, EDR, or threat detection platforms Experience with stream processing frameworks (Flink, Kafka Streams) Kubernetes and containerized microservices deployment Observability stack experience (Prometheus, Grafana) Understanding of security detection engineering and MITRE ATT&CK framework Open source contributions to Go, Kafka, or ClickHouse ecosystems Our Stack Go for all backend services gRPC for transport and service communication Redpanda (Kafka-compatible) for event streaming ClickHouse for event storage and analytical queries Kubernetes for deployment Microservices architecture with containerized workloads