Backend Engineer, Endor Labs
Member of Technical Staff
Office located in Palo Alto, Ca
Dependency lifecycle management
Posted today
Dependency lifecycle management
21-100 employees
Posted today
Office located in Palo Alto, Ca
21-100 employees
Company mission
To deliver the impossible - create secure software supply chains that actually make developers more productive, rather than drowning in useless alerts.
Role
Who you are
- Engineering Expertise: Bring your Bachelor’s degree in engineering and over ~7 years of hands-on experience building scalable backends for product and SaaS companies to our innovative team
- Golang Mastery: Showcase ~4 years of experience in Golang programming, with a deep focus on microservices and distributed architecture, to drive our cutting-edge solutions
- API Design Skills: Demonstrate your practical experience in designing robust APIs using frameworks like gRPC (preferred), ReST, GraphQL, or Thrift, creating seamless and efficient integrations
- Technical Solution Design: Prove your ability to architect and build technical solutions from the ground up, with your code and documentation setting the standard for best practices at Endor
- Scalable Systems Savvy: Bring your experience with scalable distributed systems, including microservices, domain-driven design, load balancing, and scaling strategies (both horizontal and vertical), to tackle complex challenges
- Architectural Acumen: Apply your knowledge of data structures and architectural design to build systems that scale effortlessly and adapt for long-term success. Use data-driven approaches to guide architectural decisions
- Influential Communicator: Leverage your ability to discuss architectural trade-offs and guide teams towards the most effective solutions, ensuring alignment and forward momentum
- Adaptable Innovator: Thrive in a fast-paced environment with shifting requirements, embracing change and finding creative solutions to new and unfamiliar problems
- Problem-Solving Pro: Apply your practical experience in troubleshooting distributed systems to identify and resolve root causes, ensuring smooth and reliable operations
Desirable
- Master of Secure Design: Expertise in secure software design principles, including managing certificates, OAuth2/OIDC, and implementing secure changes
- Cloud-Native Proficiency: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Lambda functions, or other cutting-edge cloud-native technologies
- Security Savvy: Knowledge of security, fraud prevention, and anomaly detection to tackle real-world challenges and safeguard our systems with cutting-edge solutions
What the job involves
- Join Our Cutting-Edge Backend Team: Dive into the heart of innovation by working on a state-of-the-art distributed system with a sophisticated monorepo architecture
- Own Core Libraries: Take charge of enhancing and maintaining Endor's crucial GoLang libraries, including gRPC/protobuf, OpenAPI, AuthN/AuthZ, Observability, and MongoDB. Your work will be foundational to our tech stack
- Elevate Core Services: Drive the development and optimization of vital core services like our API Gateway and API servers, ensuring robust and scalable infrastructure
- Innovate with Autonomy: Embrace the freedom to design and build top-tier tools that will be leveraged across all teams at Endor, making a significant impact on our operations
- Support & Enhance Monorepo: Contribute to the evolution of Endor's polyglot monorepo using Bazel, improving our development workflow and efficiency
- Advance CI Pipelines: Enhance and optimize our continuous integration (CI) pipeline to streamline and elevate the quality of our monorepo builds
- Champion Observability: Apply best practices in observability to ensure our products and platforms achieve exceptional reliability and availability for our users
Our take
Endor Labs is a startup specializing in software supply chain security, with a Dependency Lifecycle Management platform designed to bolster the security of open-source software. Its unique approach to identifying critical vulnerabilities and leading indicators of risk within open-source software components aids developers and solution builders in safeguarding against software chain attacks.
Leveraging advanced graph analysis, its innovative DLM platform not only detects vulnerabilities but also identifies the depth of dependencies within applications. A notable feature is DroidGPT, an AI tool integrating OpenAI's ChatGPT to simplify the identification of secure versions of open-source packages.
With a successful Series A funding round under its belt, Endor Labs is poised for growth. This influx of capital will fuel the expansion of its workforce and bolster its technical capabilities and market outreach. As cyber security concerns oom large, Endor Labs remains steadfast in its mission to meet the escalating demand for secure software development. In doing so, it promises to leave a lasting imprint on the industry through its innovative approaches and solutions.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2023
$70m
SERIES A
Oct 2022
$25m
SEED
Total funding: $95m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- 401(k) plan to help you invest in your future
- Flexible PTO to support work-life balance
- Opportunities for co-working and team meetups to foster collaboration
- A dog-friendly office environment for our pet-loving team members
- Remote work with flexible co-working and team meetup opportunities
- Home office and internet stipend
Company HQ
Downtown North, Palo Alto, CA
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Leadership
Varun Badhwar
(CEO)Graduated from the University of Southern California with a BS in Computer Science. Founder and former CEO of RedLock (acquired by Palo Alto Networks). Also co-founded CipherCloud where they served as the VP of Products & Field Operations.
Dimitri Stiliadis
(CTO)Graduated from the University of California with a PhD in Computer Engineering. Founder and former CTO of Aporeto (acquired by Palo Alto Networks). Also co-founded Nuage Networks where they served as the CTO.
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