Senior Backend Engineer
We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Sightline detection engineering team. You will design, build, and operate high-scale, low-latency backend services that score and protect web and API traffic against automated abuse, working at the core of HUMAN’s real-time detection platform.
What you’ll do:
High-Scale Engineering: Design, build, and maintain distributed, high-throughput backend services processing hundreds of thousands of requests per second with strict tens-of-milliseconds latency targets.
End-to-End Ownership: Own services from architecture and implementation to deployment and reliability. This includes full-stack instrumentation (monitoring, alerting, and tracing) to detect and mitigate production issues.
Product Innovation: Implement and evolve real-time detection and decisioning flows within the Sightline Cyberfraud Defense platform, collaborating with security researchers, data science, and product teams.
Cloud-Native Operations: Build and operate services in a Kubernetes environment using a modern GitOps stack (Go, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, BigQuery, ArgoCD, Pulumi, Crossplane), en
