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$172,000–$233,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and operate Internet-scale scanning, DNS, crawling, attribution, and data collection systems.
  • Own production backend services and pipelines that collect, process, validate, and enrich massive Internet datasets.
  • Lead technical design for distributed services, streaming pipelines, storage systems, and scan orchestration infrastructure.

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$122,400–$176,000/yr
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  • Help automate infrastructure and operations to improve reliability, performance, and scalability.

Abnormal protects the humans behind the world's most critical organizations from AI-powered cybercrime. 4,500+ enterprises trust our behavioral AI platform.

$151,000–$218,000/yr
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  • Lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team focused on data collection systems.
  • Own the roadmap and delivery for Internet scanning and data pipelines.
  • Provide technical and operational leadership for distributed systems and production reliability.

Censys builds the most comprehensive, accurate map of the Internet through IP scanning, DNS lookups, and web crawling. It is a security startup with midwestern roots that serves over 50% of the Fortune 500 and leading threat intelligence providers.

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Grafana Labs is the company behind the open source observability platform Grafana, providing a fully managed observability cloud. With over 1,600 team members across 40+ countries, the company fosters a global, collaborative culture rooted in open source principles.

$151,000–$206,000/yr
US Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Build large-scale real-time services and applications leveraging massive datasets.
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  • Work with Machine Learning Engineers and Security Researchers on security solutions.

Censys provides real-time Internet intelligence and threat insights to global governments and Fortune 500 companies. It is a growing company with a focus on comprehensive internet mapping and security solutions.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Design, build, and operate distributed systems that ingest, process, and store telemetry at very high scale.
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ClickHouse provides a real-time analytics database for data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads. Recognized on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 list, it has over 4,000 customers and significant year-over-year growth.

$163,000–$263,670/yr
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  • Debug and resolve complex production issues while sharing the team's on-call rotation.

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US

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  • Build systems for processing and analyzing large volumes of security, vulnerability, container, and runtime data.
  • Solve complex problems involving concurrency, performance, scalability, and distributed processing across Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud environments.

RapidFort is a cybersecurity company focused on securing and optimizing modern software supply chains and cloud-native environments. The company works with enterprise and U.S. public-sector customers in security-sensitive environments, fostering a culture of technical ownership and collaboration.

Global

  • Owning technical design and execution for major products, systems and engineering initiatives.
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BJAK builds technology products used by millions of users across Southeast Asia. The company is a distributed, fast-moving international team that values technical leadership and hands-on engineering.

Global Unlimited PTO

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  • Own backend services end-to-end, from architecture to monitoring, while collaborating with product and engineering peers.
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Zerion builds backend systems for Web3 infrastructure, powering API and wallet products trusted by 50+ top crypto brands. They have a fully remote team with strong ownership and high code quality, processing over 3.1B requests and supporting 1.7M+ active funded wallets.

$200,000–$350,000/yr
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  • Design, build, and operate production software systems.
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The company builds sophisticated infrastructure and software systems. It is a rapidly scaling technology company that values ownership and technical excellence.

US

  • Own the infrastructure end-to-end for ScaleOps' self-hosted and SaaS platforms.
  • Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including networking, security, and compute.
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$116,960–$146,200/yr
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  • Design and build robust, scalable backend systems and APIs across Twilio Segment's data platform.
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Twilio provides real-time communications and data solutions that help companies and developers worldwide build better customer experiences. With thousands of employees globally, they foster a remote-first culture focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Global Unlimited PTO

  • Deliver on business-critical outcomes by owning backend and data services end-to-end, from design to production operation.
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Blackpoint Cyber is the leading provider of world-class cybersecurity threat hunting, detection and remediation technology. Founded by former National Security Agency (NSA) cyber operations experts, the company is in hyper-growth mode, fueled by a recent $190m series C round.

APAC

  • Design and deliver significant components and core subsystems of our Kubernetes platform, such as secrets management, workload identity, storage, or cluster networking, from design through production operation.
  • Contribute to the architecture of distributed workloads, working with dependent teams to get runtime and isolation models right, while spending most time hands-on in code.
  • Own operability of built systems including SLOs, failure modes, upgrades, migrations, and on-call, and mentor earlier-career engineers.

ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention, bringing together any AI, any data, and any workflow to help 85% of the Fortune 500 work smarter, faster, and better. The company fosters an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together, with a focus on freeing people from busywork.

US

  • You'll contribute to infrastructure scaling to infinitely many apps, improving performance and reliability across backend services.
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  • You'll participate in triage and on-call processes to diagnose issues and implement changes to prevent recurrence.

Bubble is an AI visual development platform that empowers anyone to create software without code, from first-time entrepreneurs to enterprise teams. With over 6 million users in more than 100 countries and a mission to break down barriers to entrepreneurship, the company fosters a collaborative and inclusive culture focused on empowering builders worldwide.

Global

  • Lead and grow a team within our Agentic Engineering organization.
  • Set technical direction across the agent harness, integrations, and workflows.
  • Partner with Product and Design to turn agent capabilities into useful developer experiences.

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Singapore

  • You will build and scale high-performance backend services using Go, including event-driven systems and REST/gRPC APIs.
  • You will design and optimize database schemas for large-scale multi-tenant identity workloads.
  • You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver quarterly key results and ensure operational reliability.

Abnormal AI is an AI-native security platform protecting enterprises from cyber attacks using behavioral AI. Trusted by over 2,500 enterprises (including 25% of Fortune 500), it processes billions of identity signals daily and has a culture of innovation.

$127,500–$165,000/yr
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  • Design, build, and improve backend and platform systems driving Midnite's core product.
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Midnite is a next-generation sports betting and gaming platform built for a new wave of players. With over 400,000 players, we are a high-performance team operating at pace with high ownership and constant iteration.

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European Union UK

  • Own the design and implementation of high-scale backend systems and APIs that power DistroKid's core platform.
  • Architect and evolve distributed systems on AWS to handle high throughput, reliability, and performance.
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DistroKid helps millions of independent artists distribute their music to streaming services and keep 100% of their earnings. It is a fully remote company with an employee-first culture and offers robust benefits.

$200,000–$240,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO 16w maternity 16w paternity

  • You define architecture and operational standards for managed services across AWS. - You serve as the final technical escalation point for complex customer situations. - You shape Honeycomb's open source strategy in the OpenTelemetry ecosystem and mentor engineers.

Honeycomb is a service for observability, defining developer tools for the near and present future. We are a fully distributed company of over 200 talented and inclusive bees, named to Forbes' America's Best Startups of 2022 and 2023.